Ethan MarcotteApr 2, 2024

“Though it seemed completely automated, [Amazon’s] 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.” https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

[removes glasses; pinches bridge of nose; sighs until the heat death of the universe]

Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

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

Gizmodo
Show threadmalevolent dictator for life
@beep why does this keep happening 💀
Apr 2, 2024 at 8:23pmWeb
Show threadCocoaApr 2, 2024
@astrid @beep Because the idea is that in theory, you can use the manually labeled data to apply machine learning to it.

The problem is that's not always a thing that works.
Show threadmalevolent dictator for lifeApr 2, 2024
@cocoa @beep oh I know how machine learning works

What I mean is just that so many times when a company advertises it's AI, it's actually just people behind the scenes. Like there was this one robot food delivery company on college campuses that turned out to just be people in the Philippines remotely piloting the robots
Show threadAsta [AMP]Apr 2, 2024
@[email protected] @beep It's only supervised learning if you think of them as actual human beings!

(edit: sarcasm, but... also, I'm pretty sure they don't think of them as actual people. I don't think they think of anyone not in their socioeconomic class as actual people)
Show threadCritterzoologyApr 3, 2024
@aud @astrid @beep "A.I. will be the end of outsourcing!"
'Proceeds to replace it with a new more fucked up and evil kind of outsourcing.'
Show threadjonathankoren™Apr 2, 2024
@astrid I always think about the delivery bots that are billed as autonomous, but are actually manually driven
Show threadhttps://bsky.halvasweb.spaceApr 3, 2024
@astrid @beep this one is even more ridiculous, it's literally that meme about chatgpt being actually a thousand indians typing out answers to you