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Re:Ask HN: What happened to robots taking all our jobs? by easytiger on Sunday June 26, 2022 @04:07AM (#31882024)
That's just turning the screen around and making the customer do the same thing as the employee based off the fact that CCTV systems will work with people's decency so as to not steal. It's not automation, the same actions still occur.
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Re:Ask HN: What happened to robots taking all our jobs? by flakyfilibuster on Monday June 27, 2022 @05:22AM (#31892268)
are ... we going to be replaced by robots?!
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Re:Ask HN: What happened to robots taking all our jobs? by lupire on Sunday June 26, 2022 @10:41AM (#31884447)
That only works because of the previous success in semi automating checkout, and scaling up the efficiency of security via CCTV.
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Re:Ask HN: What happened to robots taking all our jobs? by easytiger on Monday June 27, 2022 @08:15AM (#31893459)
Checkouts weren't previously automated, they were digitised. The reporting of data was no longer a manual process so you could argue the backoffice tasks were automated.
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