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Re:Amazon Grows to over 750k Robots, Replacing 100k Humans by smnrchrds on Sunday April 21, 2024 @08:13PM (#40110370)
I have a question: was the customer billed based on whatever the machine learning algorithm determined, or based on what humans decided after the fact? In other words, was the humans' job to just provide training data for future versions of the machine learning algorithm, or to manually fix the algorithm's errors and prevent over-billing?
Re:Amazon Grows to over 750k Robots, Replacing 100k Humans by entangledqubit on Sunday April 21, 2024 @10:30PM (#40110987)
IIRC, they could correct your bill after the fact.

I used to joke with others that shoplifted items should be retroactively free - as long as you self report after the fact. (Extra useful training data...)

Re:Amazon Grows to over 750k Robots, Replacing 100k Humans by antiterra on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @03:40AM (#40129524)
From my experience you just weren’t actually billed until they were done, it could be many hours after you left the store.