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I went to one of these stores in Seattle on a weekday afternoon with a couple friends. It was literally packed with people. We tried breaking the system by leav
by tracer4201 6y ago
I went to one of these stores in Seattle on a weekday afternoon with a couple friends. It was literally packed with people. We tried breaking the system by leaving items in random places and exchanging them between us. It still charged me accurately for a couple bottled waters, a sandwich, and some other snacks.
- trimbo 6y agoAgain, how do you know there aren't humans on the other side of the cameras/sensors facilitating this? At the scale they're operating at and the accuracy you point out, to me it's more plausible they're having humans assist.
- nicoburns 6y agoI think they're saying that humans behind cameras likely wouldn't be able to do this accurately.
- trimbo 6y agoExcept that cameras in stores have been used for anti-shoplifting for decades. They've been used for more subtle things like monitoring tables at casinos. I mean, I'm just asking the question how people know for sure Go isn't (at least partly) a Turk. It seems like an obvious thing to ask? But I first came to wonder if there's manual component involved after shopping a few times at Go. When it was busy, it took sometimes well over an hour to get a receipt. When it was empty, it was immediate. How come? Also, the accuracy is completely anecdotal both ways... at least one person I visited the store with never got billed.
- klyrs 6y agoThis is the fun kind of Turing test: tasks where only a computer/mechanized system can succeed.
- m463 6y agoCustomer "4201, tracer". Troublemaker. Enable customer-specific pricing increases until resolution.