Turns out Amazon's AI-powered no-cashier grocery store was actually powered by the low-wage labor of 1,000 Indians

[Dorian Breh]

i honestly assumed it was like this

same with some "autonomous" vehicles

 

[Piff Perkins]

Feels like a lot of this shyt is a mirage focused on securing as much financing as possible. Once the money and market is secured they then start building what they can.

 

[bnew]

seems incredible illegal (fraud, privacy, etc) if true

you talking about the shareholders? it wasn't a big part of their business to warrant any action by them or the S.E.C.

 

[DrunkenNovice]

I was just wondering how this works

I went to a retail store this past weekend and they just have you dump the clothes into a box, and it gives you a total.

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/02/amazon-removing-just-walk-out-technology-fresh-store-locations/

Not exactly shocking that Amazon would pull something like this, but still absolutely dystopian as fukk. Makes you wonder how many of the jobs we're supposedly about to lose to AI are actually just going to be sneakily outsourced to low-wage developing countries.

I am actually shocked

Amazon has no shame.

 

[Sterling Archer]

Was this ever advertised as AI? I don’t recall that part.

 

[JustRegularBlack]

The Theranos "fake it til you make it" approach is done by more businesses than we'd assume.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

They’re working overtime to get AI out of here lol. This shyt is crazy though

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

word is this supposed AI system was code named "Nap"

 

[tuckgod]

Oh boy, Election season is going to be wild here.

 

[get these nets]

We're sitting here talking about AI ?

 

[AAKing23]

These nikkas got robots subleasing labor

 

[Gloxina]

Lemme find out @ChatGPT-4 is a bunch of Indians duct taped together somewhere

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

One of these was supposed to open near me. The store is built out and everything but it still is empty. Now I see why.

 

[The Pledge]

Feels like a lot of this shyt is a mirage focused on securing as much financing as possible. Once the money and market is secured they then start building what they can.

Absolutely

Computer Vision has a bottleneck with AI. It’s just not there yet, that’s why Elon Musk bytch ass Tesla got called out for Self Driving being a failure

Two years ago when I was looking into masters programs, they were still in the baby steps.

Just need more time, machine learning isn’t doing the work, it’s just the data that’s doing the heavy lifting. They’re trying to make it happen, but yeah might need a good 5 years.

Once you see major automakers start talking about self driving cars seriously, you know they made a breakthrough.