Am I the only one who gets to the self checkout and is compelled to finish as soon as humanly possible?

Imagine if there was a speedrun timer on them and a leaderboard

Would make boring everyday life a little more interesting

  • @flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
    10•3 months ago

    Apparently those are being phased out now because they weren’t really automatic, just outsourced to people in india

    • @BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4•3 months ago

      Yeah, it appears that the system was computer-assisted, not computer-controlled. Amazon tried to “fake it till you make it”, but never made it.

      Another L for AI.

      • @flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
        3•3 months ago

        Nothing wrong with AI, it’s a tool that’s very good at specific problems

        Tech companies just don’t know what is and isn’t a good use case yet

        • @BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1•3 months ago

          Honestly “track this person’s movements and figure out what they picked up using this huge amount of sensor and camera data” should be a pretty good ML use case, but Amazon doesn’t really have the right technical talent to make that work.

      • @viralJ@lemmy.world
        1•3 months ago

        Was it really AI powered? I’ve never used one (we’ve not had them in the UK) so I’m genuinely curious. I heard it just had chips in every product, so when you leave the shop through a gate, everything you bought got scanned, and you were charged automatically. But in my description there is no AI in the modern sense of pattern recognition based on vast training data.