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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    6 months ago

    Apparently those are being phased out now because they weren’t really automatic, just outsourced to people in india

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        6 months ago

        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

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        Was it really AI powered? I’ve never used one (we’ve not had them in the UK) so I’m genuinely curious. I heard it just had chips in every product, so when you leave the shop through a gate, everything you bought got scanned, and you were charged automatically. But in my description there is no AI in the modern sense of pattern recognition based on vast training data.