Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
How algorithms run
Amazon’s warehouses
Human hands, that
what makes a chain of an online purchase, fulfillment and delivery completes.
First, you click a
key or touch the screen to confirm the purchase. Immediately, the fulfillment
process begins in a warehouse somewhere in the country. The fulfillment system tells
a picker to fetch the merchandise ordered. The picker then simply follow the
instruction, lift the merchandise from the shelf and brings it to the packaging
line. There, there merchandise is boxed with the invoice and some flyers and
sealed for shipment. Once the box is shipped out of the warehouse, it’ll be
delivered by a human driver.
This is what is
happening now in a fastest and most efficient fashion at Amazon. But some or even
all of these processes that are handled by humans now could be replaced by
machines and drones in the future. Does it matter whether such process is done
by humans or something else?
Enjoy reading and
learning behind the scenes of your convenient online purchase.
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