Amazon Go, deep learning, and a better retail experience

GUEST: You could say Amazon Go almost broke tech media’s internet this past December. Driverless shopping, checkout-free shopping, almost “shoplifting,” deep learning, computer vision, and job killer AI were a few phrases that made the rounds. Taking a step back, one does wonder why this is surprising, and how we all missed this entirely. The signs have been there all along.
The online giant realized earlier than anyone else that being the fastest shipping service in