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[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Sounds like the Mechanical Turk which was run by chess players moving the "automaton."

So much of the wow factor of new technologies is just marketing hyperbole.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The article states they're replacing the original overhead camera concept with cameras embedded in the shopping carts, so the idea is not going away.

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