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Do you think more AI companies augment their "AI" with actual people?

• falcolas 3y ago
  Absolutely. I knew one company who mined the Twitter firehose for events to sell to news stations and the government who had over 60% of the events identified and surfaced by dedicated employees, and 100% of the AI identified events were vetted by a person before going out. Still valuable, but it was always telling how those employees were never really acknowledged outside of the company.
• paxys 3y ago
  Of course. Amazon Go stores are a good example of this as well. As are all kinds of content filters across the internet. A large percent of "AI" is cheap labor in third world countries sitting in front of a computer and clicking buttons. And if human assistance isn't happening in real time, there is still a ridiculous amount of it in the training stages.
• sgt101 3y ago
  A UK company called spinvox blew up when it was revealed that their speech transcription tech was actually a warehouse filled with people in Pakistan. In that case the blow up was due to data protection laws in the first instance, and investor confidence in the second instance. They had, of course, told everyone that their transcription system was a giant e-brain.