Walmart employees are out to show its anti-shoplifting AI doesn’t work
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#2As someone who has inadvertently stolen from Walmart on more than one occasion, I cant attest that their anti-shoplifting AI does not work.
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#3another day another ai failure. next year it will predict 2020’s covid pandemic.
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#4self check out systems are great and the concerns of the workers should be heard but it comes down to not having all the numbers.
what is the positive to false positive rate? projects can have metrics that those in the field are not privy too and it could down to they are preventing a sufficient dollar amount to not consider the false positives are an issue. Again, what are the percentages?
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#5False Positives don't matter. It's all about mitigating False negatives enough to lower shrinkage and justify the costs of the software.
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#6As someone who has inadvertently stolen from Walmart on more than one occasion, I cant attest that their anti-shoplifting AI does not work.
How does one inadvertently steal?
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#7self check out systems are great and the concerns of the workers should be heard but it comes down to not having all the numbers. what is the positive to false positive rate? projects can have metrics that those in the field are not privy too and it could down to they are preventing a sufficient dollar amount to not consider the false positives are an issue. Again, what are the percentages?
Right. It takes a lot of theft to pay for a whole extra human standing there. Even a minimum wage.
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#8False Positives don't matter. It's all about mitigating False negatives enough to lower shrinkage and justify the costs of the software.
False positives may cost more than the items being protected in diverse costs.
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#10As someone who has inadvertently stolen from Walmart on more than one occasion, I cant attest that their anti-shoplifting AI does not work.
How does one inadvertently steal?
They have that hand scanner tool, so you can scan larger objects without picking them up, and I often will forget I have smaller objects under the larger one I scanned.
Also, scanning 1 item while holding two of it in your hand.