Amazon’s heavily hyped “Just Walk Out” AI-powered checkout was, in truth, driven by over 1,000 workers in India manually reviewing surveillance footage
Microsoft’s investment in a virtual assistant “Natasha” turned out to be 700 Indian employees posing as chatbots.
Either scenario isn't good. It's wage arbitrage.
“AI” doesn’t stand for “Artificial Intelligence” as much as it stands for “Actually India.”
>Amazon’s heavily hyped “Just Walk Out” AI-powered checkout was, in truth, driven by over 1,000 workers in India manually reviewing surveillance footage
>Microsoft’s investment in a virtual assistant “Natasha” turned out to be 700 Indian employees posing as chatbots.
Either scenario isn't good. It's wage arbitrage.
>“AI” doesn’t stand for “Artificial Intelligence” as much as it stands for “Actually India.”
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