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Big Tech Is Faking AI (www.youtube.com)
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A new report has shown that Amazon's "Just Walk Out" AI checkout process is actually processed by 1,000 staff in India.Tech companies are under pressure to d...

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[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

That's not AI tho. Like on any level.

Calling that AI is marketing or a lie.

[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Except there is an AI. It just wasn't confident for 70% of transactions and flagged those for manual review.

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Anything can be an AI if the marketing department decides to call it AI.

[–] CeeBee@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

That's not AI tho.

What do you mean?

[–] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago

Possibly they are trying to use the data generated by the workers to train an AI