Stephen Webb: I can't get to the article Gizmodo links to, because it's behind a $50/month paywall, but if they're labeling videos they're not doing the checkout live, they're building training data for the model that does the automated checkout. Probably for comically low wages.

I knew it!

lol whaddaya know

I can't get to the article Gizmodo links to, because it's behind a $50/month paywall, but if they're labeling videos they're not doing the checkout live, they're building training data for the model that does the automated checkout. Probably for comically low wages.

I think the video feed was live. "It often took hours for customers to receive receipts after leaving the store, largely because offshore cashiers were rewatching videos and assigning items to different customers. The system of scanners and video cameras in each store is also incredibly expensive

If they're rewatching videos, that's probably live, although we're parsing a lot of meaning from a Gizmodo article. My guess is they had a model, it would flag any activity it was confused by for a human to look at, and that turned out to be more activity than they'd like.

* probably _not_ live, that's a really important word missing

Perhaps. There's also only 40-50 of these stores total so 1,000 people seems like a lot if they're only watching videos the machine throws up an error on. Thanks to paywalls we'll just never know

Yeah, I'm guessing given that it's Amazon they did not go to market without a plan to fully automate this, it just turned out to be a lot harder than they expected.

Here's a paywalled bypass link (yes, I have a sub to The Information): www.theinformation.com/articles/ama...

Amazon’s Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Techwww.theinformation.com Amazon’s grab-and-go checkout system, Just Walk Out, has been a centerpiece of its ambitions to transform bricks-and-mortar supermarkets. Now Amazon is gearing up to open a new batch of grocery stores...

That link doesn't seem to bypass the paywall.

Yeah, it appears the link is limited to a few views. In this case its....three views. 😑

Here's an alternative link to the article: text.is/2325

Amazon’s Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech - text.istext.is Amazon’s Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout TechAmazon’s grabandgo checkout system, Just Walk Out, has been a centerpiece of its ambitions to transform bricksandmortar supermarkets. Now Ama...

The checkout calculations are done after the customer leaves.

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