Amazon Go - Deep Learning Conquers Retail - insideBIGDATA

Seattle is one of my favorite tech-friendly cities and I always look forward to heading out to the Pacific Northwest for a conference. Sometimes I take off on foot from my favorite downtown hotel to take in the feel of the city. Yes, Seattle is that cool. This time, I stumbled upon a real gem – the new Amazon Go store located at 2131 7th Ave., just a few blocks from my hotel. I soon found out this experimental retail outlet is a bold new move to transform retail that's powered by deep learning technology, specifically image recognition algorithms.