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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by Ginobili on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @02:54PM (#39909516)
i'm curious to know what the limitations of the technology are. Are the machine learning/CV algorithms not accurate enough to run it at scale?
Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by JohnFen on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @06:46PM (#39911671)
I work with ML CV industrial systems, and they can certainly do accurate and detailed analysis and identification very quickly. The systems that do this are also necessarily very, very expensive -- much more expensive than any grocery store could possibly justify.

Of course, costs change with time, but right now I don't see how this sort of application could approach being financially feasible.