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It is good strategy. Just don't get caught lying about it

• mewpmewp2 3y ago
  What was the lie? Is there a source for the statement that was a lie?
  • passwordoops 3y ago
    "Automated checkout systems powered by computer vision can significantly reduce checkout times. For instance, Amazon Go stores use computer vision to automatically track items added to a shopping cart and charge customers accordingly as they leave the store" (1) The only way this can be interpreted as "people manually look at the camera and tabulate the price" is disingenuously. And it's one example that I suspect will be scrubbed from the web, but from the moment this was launched, unless you were living under a rock, the message was "AI powers the store." So please stop with the hairsplitting and revisionist history. (1) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/enhancing-the-retail-experience-the-power-of-computer-vision/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/enhancing-the-retail...
    • mewpmewp2 3y ago
      As I understand, they do use computer vision, but the 1000 people are just either reviewing it or labelling the data for computer vision. Which seems like a normal way to me to start with a system like that. You definitely need to review it for a while to be certain of its quality and understand the edge cases which I'm sure there would've been many of. E.g. the way I imagine it to be is that this CV system will attempt to identify the item and confidence that it is that item. If the confidence is too low, it will trigger a signal for human feedback, then human will either confirm or reject.
      • passwordoops 2y ago
        Then advertise it as Human-in-the-Loop. At no point did Amazon do this. In fact they did the opposite and led people to believe the tech was much further along than reality. Why the lie?