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Speedrun timers on self checkouts (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nothing wrong with AI, it's a tool that's very good at specific problems

Tech companies just don't know what is and isn't a good use case yet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly "track this person's movements and figure out what they picked up using this huge amount of sensor and camera data" should be a pretty good ML use case, but Amazon doesn't really have the right technical talent to make that work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

True, you'd think Amazon would have the talent to do it though if they wanted to