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Speedrun timers on self checkouts (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Am I the only one who gets to the self checkout and is compelled to finish as soon as humanly possible?

Imagine if there was a speedrun timer on them and a leaderboard

Would make boring everyday life a little more interesting

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[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Amazon Go's ("just walk out") self checkout gives you an elapsed time on your receipt. There was one next door to my old pre-pandemic office. My coworkers and I would complete to see who could get in and out the fastest. My record was 6 seconds buying a single bottled tea.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Apparently those are being phased out now because they weren't really automatic, just outsourced to people in india

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, it appears that the system was computer-assisted, not computer-controlled. Amazon tried to "fake it till you make it", but never made it.

Another L for AI.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nothing wrong with AI, it's a tool that's very good at specific problems

Tech companies just don't know what is and isn't a good use case yet

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly "track this person's movements and figure out what they picked up using this huge amount of sensor and camera data" should be a pretty good ML use case, but Amazon doesn't really have the right technical talent to make that work.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

True, you'd think Amazon would have the talent to do it though if they wanted to

[–] viralJ@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Was it really AI powered? I've never used one (we've not had them in the UK) so I'm genuinely curious. I heard it just had chips in every product, so when you leave the shop through a gate, everything you bought got scanned, and you were charged automatically. But in my description there is no AI in the modern sense of pattern recognition based on vast training data.

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

we've not had them in the UK

I shopped at an automated Amazon Fresh in Bankside London yesterday...

[–] viralJ@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Oh. Ok then, we don't have them in the UK in the city where I live.