Comment on Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop
baru@lemmy.world 1 month agoJesus christ these headlines mislead everything.
One article included how often employees needed to look at the cameras. That was the case in something like 80% of the times people went in to shop.
The goal was to train ML enough so that humans were rarely necessary, obviously.
The headline is pretty accurate. That might have been the goal, but they didn’t come close. And now they are closing down those stores.
Seems that they utterly failed in the goal.
Machine learning has lots of errors until you train it.
These stores were open for a pretty long time. It’s not a given that it’s just a matter of training.
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The people who hate AI always seem to have no fucking idea how it actually works and it’s frustrating.
People were required to teach the AI how to do it’s job. A ‘new employee’ is going to make frequent mistakes during training. Should the people training it have been paid more for their temporary position? Sure. Should Amazon have been transparent about how they were teaching the AI? Sure. They still did not rely on these people for their stores, they relied on people to teach the AI, like doing a captcha, that the store relied on. It’s just more interesting to point at corporation and go “exploitation!”
Experiments in technology don’t always work. This was a bold plan that they gave years to which would have been a really cool thing to have. Just grabbing your shit and leaving? That’s like EZPass for retail. There was definitely money there, they just couldn’t get to it in time.