larrik 5 days ago

20% seems like a "significant portion" to me

  • Breza 2 days ago

    For sure! Twenty percent moves you from "Game changing tech" to "Slightly improved self checkout."

mjr00 5 days ago

20% is an incredibly high number though, if a store has 400 people/hour that means you're manually reviewing 80 transactions per hour, over one transaction per minute. That's multiple human employees.

  • iLoveOncall 5 days ago

    One transaction per minute is nothing at all when the transaction can be as simple as "did the person put that back on the shelf" with a 5 seconds clip.

    • freejazz 4 days ago

      If it was clear from just a 5 second clip it probably wouldn't have needed to be reviewed

      • iLoveOncall 4 days ago

        Hum, yes it does? It's not because it's not a complex action that it's necessarily supported by the models.

        It's not hard to imagine edge scenarios for which the models aren't trained, like a customer dropping an item, or putting an item back in a random shelf instead of the one it's intended for, or someone picking up that previously randomly placed item, etc.

        • freejazz 4 days ago

          Just a big assumption on your part when the more reasonable conclusion was just that it was not working and it was not a 5 second thing (hence why receipts were taking so long, etc).

pessimizer 5 days ago

Proven "false." I've noticed that if one admits the truth with a dismissive or offended tone, you can just continue to claim the lie and through sheer force of will people will still go with it.

I think people just think that they must be misunderstanding something; that nobody could claim one thing while offering evidence of its opposite. 1/5 of purchases lose their significance.

EdiX 5 days ago

Nothing has been "proven". The original story was The Information (paywalled article) reshared by Business Insider [1] and claimed that 70% of the transactions were reviewed by an indian. The source was an anonymous source.

Business Insider also reached out to Amazon at the time and a spokesperson denied that actually reviewed any transactions.

This "proven false" thing is just another anonymous source claiming that actually it was only 20%.

So you actually have no proof of anything, you just have three persons claiming three different things (0%, 20% and 70%).

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actual...

whateveracct 5 days ago

Transactions or grabs? Cuz I grab >5 things every time..so it stands to reason Indians always reviewed me.