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So, question: Why is this fraud, but Uber isn't? This company claims they're using humans to build apps while they develop an AI platform out of hand-wavium.
by braythwayt 7y ago
So, question:
Why is this fraud, but Uber isn't?
This company claims they're using humans to build apps while they develop an AI platform out of hand-wavium.
Uber claims they're using humans to drive cars while they develop self-driving cars out of hand-wavium.
Seems like the same model to me.
- RosanaAnaDana 7y agoYeah. This gives me about 0 pause. Imo personal opinion, 'AI' at this point is about augmentation of human action to reduce costs (time, materials, human attention, compute, etc), and actually, if you know what you're doing, it works and can make you money. My group works extremely heavily in this space. We use a combination of human annotation and ML to speed up human annotation and improve the products of the ML component. Rinse, wash hands, recur until 95% of predictions are 95% accurate or better. Use ML to find the 5% of predictions that aren't up to snuff and lay hands on them (this is the part where you have to pay people). There is nothing shameful about including humans in the process.
- braythwayt 7y agoWell, it just goes to show you, it's always something — if it ain't one thing, it's another.
- Nasrudith 7y agoTruth and the fact one is about goals vs what they are currently doing. Having unrealistic goals isn't fraud if everything is disclosed properly but making claims about what you have now is. Claiming that you plan on researching the cure for cancer while you flunked high school biology and plan to do your research by trying to research ancient books would be an extraordinarily stupid investment but if you applied the money towards said fool's errand there would be no fraud there. Claiming you have invented robots when they are really just metal suits with hired people inside would be fraud.