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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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[–] 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.