Posted 4/4/2024, 9:30:00 AM
Amazon shelves Just Walk Out AI tech in grocery stores after human review dependency revealed
- Amazon is replacing its "Just Walk Out" cashierless AI tech in bigger grocery stores after rolling it out just 3 years ago
- The checkout-free tech was meant to be a key differentiator for Amazon's futuristic supermarket brand
- But the AI relied on over 1,000 people in India manually reviewing transactions and labeling images to train it
- Critics viewed this as "fake AI" that failed to deliver on the promise of fully autonomous technology
- It's a reminder that AI often still depends on costly and labor-intensive human input to function