Neither the "just walk out" technology (that was really a 1000 people in India watching shoppers on video), nor the scan as you go shopping carts they're replacing it with, have anything to do with AI.
@artemesia The original claim from Amazon was that they were using AI for their “just walk out” technology. The scan as you go? No. We’ve had that in the U.K. for about 20 years. It’s not exactly new.
@artemesia A lot of AI startups seem to be relying on smoke and mirrors and minimal AI for their MVP. The surprising thing here is that Amazon was doing the same. Although I guess we’re seeing it with self driving cars, so maybe not.
@LewisWorkshop I worked on distributed agent-based systems — back when they were briefly the thing — and pretty much every slide deck I gave around that time had a picture of the Turk in it somewhere. Mostly when I talked about limitations, magic, and what problems "intelligent" systems could and couldn't be expected to solve.
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