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Isn't this the purpose of a lot of AI? To provide "good enough" alternatives to human labor. Why would anyone expect AI to make things better rather than cheape
by AlexandrB 1y ago
Isn't this the purpose of a lot of AI? To provide "good enough" alternatives to human labor. Why would anyone expect AI to make things better rather than cheaper or more profitable?
- ThrowawayTestr 1y agoExcept there's still a human that has to confirm everything the computer did
- esafak 1y agoComputers can do some things better than humans; recognize and generate speech, when accents are involved at either end.
- nicbou 1y agoAnd nag and upsell well past the point humans feel comfortable doing.
- rsynnott 1y agoIn this particular case, it seems mostly use cases that were solved some decades ago with _barcodes_, so it's not even cheaper or more profitable. There's already an alternative to human labour which works for better for this sort of application.