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JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoWhat would have stopped them from just collecting the data in their own stores, and then developed the tech?
I won’t pretend that Amazon avoided that due to ethical concerns, but doing that would have almost the exact same ethical concerns.
DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
All they had to do was run the tech alongside traditional cashiers. Make it known on entry, and your fine. No ethical concerns.
But what they did was sell tech they didnt have to shareholders to pump up the stock.
CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
From an engineering perspective they didn’t want to do this since it’s not just about AI tasks. If you go watch videos of it they have camera arrays and special shelf layouts and all sorts of stuff.
Not to mention the engineers probably wanted to be able to test it privately and without disrupting an actual store and community.
So it’s what I would’ve done as well frankly
DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What are you talking about?
It was never AI. It was always cheap remote people working in foreign countries. But you would take that, and sell it as AI like they did?
CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Looked it up and according to their claims (which we don’t have much other info on) they said that 70% needed manual review. And I’m saying AI here but really that’s the buzzword, there was a whole engineered system behind this that was automated to some degree. So yeah it wasn’t AI but it also wasn’t just people either.
JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The lying is unacceptable, but either they hire temporary workers to obsolete themselves, or they force tenured people to obsolete themselves.