I had my first real-life experience with AI* today.
I ventured in to an Amazon Fresh store for the first time.
It was an eerie experience. The mighty forest of cameras on the ceiling were one thing. Kind of expected, honestly. The absence of customers was odd - most of the people in the place were employees.
But the weirdest thing - which I still can’t wrap my head around - is that bagged “whole chickens” - wait for it - All. Weighed. Exactly. 64. Ounces.
I mean, I get the reason: each item is priced as an “each” so there’s nothing priced by weight. Everything placed in the cart is “an item” with “a price.”
But … how do they get ALL THE WHOLE CHICKENS to weigh EXACTLY four pounds?!? What on God’s green earth are they putting into the bag to make the target weight? Or are they butting in on the chicken disassembly line, diverting all 64 ounce whole chickens to the Amazon truck, leaving the rest to go to restaurants and “lesser“ grocery stores?
Absent Indian. It’s a joke in India that many things passed off a as “AI” by tech bros are actually a bunch of underpaid workers in India pretending to be computers. In this case there are precisely correct.