Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.

Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.

  • @[email protected]English
    13•8 months ago

    Yes, because when you run systems like that, you use the AI, and you have the people as a fallback for when the AI fails.

    It was primarily watched by people in India because the AI was failing the vast majority of the time.

    So yeah, the state of the art AI is… Failing at its job 70% of the time. Instead of the hoped goal of 5%.

    • @[email protected]English
      0•8 months ago

      Can’t they just…add sensors to the items and add them to your Amazon account cart anytime you add pick one, dunno, using some proximity stuff from the phone itself, then charge for the items once the phone leaves the store?

      • @[email protected]English
        5•8 months ago

        Sure they can, it just isn’t as simple as “just” ;) How do you, for example, determine who picked which item if two people are standing next to each other? Or if something is put back?

        Sure, a proof of concept will always work. Building it for the real world is a completely and utterly different beast.