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.
I would not be surprized if Anthropic would actually hire a real developer to make these PRs as a marketing stunt
Source: The Guardian
Source: ACS Information Age
So this is basically a rebrand of fiverrr or whatever it’s called?
builder AI was genuine AI, it’s just that the company simultaneously also did contracted development with real humans. journalists got confused.
AI: Actually Indians
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