They were using machine learning to try and figure out what people were buying. Machine learning has lots of errors until you train it. The “hundreds of workers” were training it by telling it what each thing was. E.g. it was creating training data for it to learn from.
The goal was to train ML enough so that humans were rarely necessary, obviously.
That’s their excuse but it is convenient for them that in order to train the AI the workers need to follow the exact same steps as what an AI would be doing if it was sufficiently trained. We can’t say as outsiders to what extent the actual work is assisted by AI. Seems likely that it is largely a manual process.
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
All “AI” relies on thousands and thousands of low-paid, overworked humans in the Global South staring at screens so snake-oil salesmen in SV and Redmond can claim they’re about to revolutionize the world. It’s all lies.
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Jesus christ these headlines mislead everything.
They were using machine learning to try and figure out what people were buying. Machine learning has lots of errors until you train it. The “hundreds of workers” were training it by telling it what each thing was. E.g. it was creating training data for it to learn from.
The goal was to train ML enough so that humans were rarely necessary, obviously.
One article included how often employees needed to look at the cameras. That was the case in something like 80% of the times people went in to shop.
The headline is pretty accurate. That might have been the goal, but they didn’t come close. And now they are closing down those stores.
Seems that they utterly failed in the goal.
These stores were open for a pretty long time. It’s not a given that it’s just a matter of training.
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That’s their excuse but it is convenient for them that in order to train the AI the workers need to follow the exact same steps as what an AI would be doing if it was sufficiently trained. We can’t say as outsiders to what extent the actual work is assisted by AI. Seems likely that it is largely a manual process.
My goal is to build a fusion reactor.
I will hire Indian call center workers to add fuel to my diesel generator until the fusion is up and running.
This plan makes sense to certain people on the internet.
You could probably get lots of funding with this. I say go for 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
What ever happened to doing this with UHF RFID? Getting the cost of the individual chips down was always just a matter of scaling production.
They weren’t just tracking what you bought. They wanted to track what you looked at and for how long, to learn what packaging worked best.
The type of shit you’d see on a movie
They found a way to outsource grocery store employees. great
If we are in an era of economic wars, can we get laws to charge companies with treason?
“Hey Vitesh, this John guy just stole two chickens”
All “AI” relies on thousands and thousands of low-paid, overworked humans in the Global South staring at screens so snake-oil salesmen in SV and Redmond can claim they’re about to revolutionize the world. It’s all lies.