Amazon is not abandoning its Just Walk Out system after all. Rather, the retail giant wants to make its checkout-free shopping technology more efficient with the help of multimodal artificial intelligence.
New lease of life for Just Walk Out
A new advanced AI model increases accuracy and makes the technology scalable to new locations, Amazon announces with renewed courage. This is quite a contrast compared with last April, when the company reported that it was abandoning the cameras and AI sensors that had made the Just Walk Out system possible. The system proved to be too expensive, but also not yet effective: Amazon had to admit that thousands of IT staff in India still had to watch over the stores and assist in training the AI models.
