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Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 7 months ago by steeznson to c/technology

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[–] TurtleJoe 19 points 7 months ago

They were using machine learning to try and figure out what people were buying. Machine learning has lots of errors ~~until you train it.~~

Machine Learning, no matter how well trained or advanced, is just doing a make-em-up.

Besides that, in this case the experiment has been going on for years and humans were still doing like 70% of the work. It was a failure, that's why Amazon shut it down