Column: Amazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image Problem
Missing from the October announcement, however, was the true extent of the data that the glasses would be gathering: Static images of whatever the wearer sees, potentially several thousand captures in a single driver’s typical shift. The pictures taken would be of a quality “equivalent or lower than the standard proof of delivery photos,” Amazon said but declined to disclose the precise resolution. The images will be used with the company’s Wellspring platform, a system “powered by generative AI” that pulls together multiple data sources to map out neighborhoods for faster delivery.
Amazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image Problembloomberg.comComing soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an AI system.