I did not realise that the Amazon Go/Fresh "just walk out" technology was in fact significantly powered by a thousand people in India manually labelling things. And now it turns out that they can't actually close the automation gap, they're ditching it as it's too expensive? https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116
@andrew the number of times an "automated" thing is just outsourcing. 🙄 This is like the robot cafe where the robots were remote controlled by low wage workers
@amorphophalex @andrew Artificial Artificial Intelligence. The entire thing is Artifice
@mcc @amorphophalex @andrew Potemkin AI
Sometimes the whole field looks like underpants gnomes are in charge of strategy:
1. Sell some idea of AI as a convenient silver bullet to people
2. ???
3. Profit 🤷♂️
