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You mean to tell me this AI company was actually 700 Indian engineers in a trenchcoat?
Actually Indians is the best type of AI
Used to be thousands of if-statements in a trench coat. But even that got offshored 😮💨
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Isn't this exactly what was exposed at the Amazon "Just Walk Out" stores? Turns out all the cameras and sensors weren't good enough, so they paid thousands of people in India to watch videos and correct checkouts. They basically just outsourced the position of cashier, while pretending it was all done automatically!
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116
Peoole aren’t appreciating just how bad these things are because they’re misinterpreting it. The goal of what they are doing here and with Amazon was never to just fake the technology right. The goal was to fake that the technology existed by using humans to do an automated thing and then to leverage that into making it actually automated.
But essentially what that means is theyre inventing technology that hasn’t been invented yet and selling it to you and the reason for doing so is to replace you with technology before it can even technically happen.
It’s essentially like someone building a new automated factory and telling workers at their other locations that they can’t be hired there since it’s automated but then someone goes inside and finds out they’re just using child laborers until the robots are ready and also robots haven’t been invented yet.
They’re using blood to grease wheels that don’t even exist to turn yet.
Feels like it should be illegal to mislead people like that.
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Yes, it's the exact same practice.
The main difference, though, is that Amazon as a company doesn't rely on this "just walk out" business in a capacity that is relevant to the overall financial situation of the company. So Amazon churns along, while that one insignificant business unit gets quietly shut down.
For this company in this post, though, they don't have a trillion dollar business subsidizing the losses from this AI scheme.
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What’s next? Am I going to find out my AI girlfriend is actually a real woman? Smh my head, can’t trust anything these days
Shit in My Hands?
Is there any other way?
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Ahh yes, the mechanical indian
The Indian Turk or short IT-worker.
Next I'm going to find out ChatGPT is 700 thousand Indians typing really fast.
Oddly between 5pm and 6am Delhi time.
Hurry! We need a photoshop of what a Col Sanders action figure would look like.
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First to push forward and invented AAI, Artificial Artificial Intelligence.
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I hope this isn't part of a larger trend of human labor being devalued because companies pretend it's just machine labor. I hope that's literally impossible.
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I wonder if they produced better results than an AI would
Probably. A startup flush with cash could probably afford to hire good talent.
I'm being increasingly convinced that when we do develop true AI, it'll actually be just a massive array of interconnected human brains in a secret facility somewhere.
thats the repair station on enterprise, the AI was using kidnapped humanoids brains to power its processing capabilities.
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Weird headline. I know they mean “exposed as another mechanical turk ‘AI’ company” but headline appears to imply simply having Indian engineers was the problem.
Edit: added explanatory link to the technical term to clarify
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The post-modern version of "three kids in a trenchcoat."