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I’ve used “Just Walk Out” at Amazon Fresh regularly over the past few years and it has been both convenient and reliable. But the machine learning is clearly stuck at a level where the need for ML data associates is cost-prohibitive: 70% requiring human verification is an order of magnitude off from their target of 5%.

Notably, they are continuing “Just Walk Out” at a few locations in case future advances make the technology more viable.




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