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World News@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago

Amazon Abandons Grocery Stores Where You Just Walk Out With Stuff After It Turns Out Its "AI" Was Powered by 1,000 Human Contractors

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Amazon Abandons Grocery Stores Where You Just Walk Out With Stuff After It Turns Out Its "AI" Was Powered by 1,000 Human Contractors

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World News@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago

Amazon is giving up with its unusual "Just Walk Out" technology, which allowed customers to simply walk out with their stuff.

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All this to avoid the untold horrors of… waiting in line for a few minutes.
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  All of this to be able to fire the cashiers.

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