alt Hacker News> On April 4, 2024, it was revealed that Amazon's "Just Walk Out" technology was supported by approximately 1,000 Indian workers who manually reviewed transactions. Despite claims of being fully automated through computer vision, a significant portion of transactions required this manual verification. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Go )
Wonder how much of this is due to economics since computer vision tech never reached the expected performance + outsourced workers got (relatively) much more expensive after COVID.
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This was proven to be false on the WAN show. Only 20% of transactions were low confidence and handled by mechanical turk.
People don’t know what the H is in RLHF.
Why did "outsourced workers get (relatively) much more expensive after"?
Another case where AI = "actually Indians". It's funny how often this has happened.
It's great that they faced essentially no consequences for this. A sure sign that we have a functional and sane market.