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The article they link for that isn't readable without subscription. Were they actually labeling data live? That sounds like effectively a secret concierge follo
by ribosometronome 3y ago
The article they link for that isn't readable without subscription. Were they actually labeling data live? That sounds like effectively a secret concierge following you around and writing down what you're getting & like it would be pretty difficult to keep up with. Otherwise, labeled data and machine learning kind of go hand and hand. It's not wild that Amazon would dogfood its own product while creating training data to improve it.
- diggan 3y agoIt does sound like a person was watching the shopper live: > Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped. But who knows, tech articles are so inaccurate that it might as well have been some misunderstanding regarding how the labeling/training was done.
- ribosometronome 3y agoYeah, that's line was what got me trying to look at the article they cite, which is unfortunately paywalled. It'd be one thing to do that at like... several stores to generate the training data. But scaling it to dozens while it still requires that? Baffling.
- skywhopper 3y agoIt sounds like the receipts weren't necessarily "live", sometimes taking hours to appear, so I'm guessing they did it as live as possible and when they got backed up they would just revisit recorded video. Something tells me the expectations for throughput were also pretty overwhelming to the individuals who worked there.