Amazon is leveraging AI to increase logistics efficiency

Amazon is using AI to help identify damaged goods + speed up packaging: E-commerce giant Amazon will employ the use of artificial intelligence (AI) at a dozen of its warehouses to screen for damaged items, speed up picking and packing, and push forward the company’s efforts to automate more of its fulfillment operations, the Wall Street Journal reports. The company has so far implemented the new tech at two fulfillment centers, with plans to roll it out across ten others in North America and Europe. Amazon claims that AI is three times more effective at identifying damage as a warehouse worker, Amazon software development manager Christoph Schwerdtfeger said, according to the newspaper.