In 2021, when Amazon launched its first “just walk out” grocery store in the UK in Ealing, west London, this newspaper reported on the cutting-edge technologies that Amazon said made it all possible: facial-recognition cameras, sensors on the shelves and, of course, “artificial intelligence”.
An employee who worked on the technology said that actual humans – albeit distant and invisible ones, based in India – reviewed about 70% of sales made in the “cashier-less” shops as of mid-2022
UK AI company builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers.
builder AI was genuine AI, it’s just that the company simultaneously also did contracted development with real humans. journalists got confused.
there’s a really good youtube documentary i watched which actually got into the tools and software used, but I can’t find it anymore. either way, you can’t dress up humans coding as AI. it’s not fast enough.
I would not be surprized if Anthropic would actually hire a real developer to make these PRs as a marketing stunt
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AI: Actually Indians
builder AI was genuine AI, it’s just that the company simultaneously also did contracted development with real humans. journalists got confused.
there’s a really good youtube documentary i watched which actually got into the tools and software used, but I can’t find it anymore. either way, you can’t dress up humans coding as AI. it’s not fast enough.
So this is basically a rebrand of fiverrr or whatever it’s called?
Well, if the model detected an issue, and a human tested it to make sure it was real and then fixed it, I think that’s an acceptable use of AI tools.
Yeh, AI as an assistant/tool. Not as a replacement