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> 5) Uh-oh, the model is underperforming, and the human worker pipeline is now some significant part of the full workflow.

AI stands for "Actually, Indians."

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I’ve been reading the article about the failure of new Siri and this quote stuck with me:

>Apple's AI/ML group has been dubbed "AIMLess" internally

The article: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/10/chaos-behind-siri-revea...

This has been a running joke in several projects I have been involved in, each time, apparently independently evolved. I never bring it up, but I am amused each time it appears out of the zeitgeist. It’s actually the best Kind of ironic humor, the kind that exposes a truth and a lie at the same time, with just enough political incorrectness to get traction.

I can’t even count the number of of times I have shut down “AI” projects where the actual plan was to use a labor pool to simulate AI, in order to create the training data to replace the humans with AI. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a terrible idea for some cases, but you can’t just come straight out of the gate with fraud. Well, I mean, you could. But. Maybe you shouldn’t.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/amazon-ends-ai-power...

holy crap the backstory on amazon fresh. no wonder. meanwhile I thought they'd solved that through tagging or something. I guess I should've known - I had read the articles on how scale ai had a ton of folks in the philippines...

I always thought it stood for Almost Implemented

Or more the more charitable Always Improving

AGI == A Guy Instead.

AGI == A Grand Illusion

Or it should be changed to MT -> Mechanical Turk

"Our bleeding edge AI/MT app..." does not sound bad at all.

It might fool general public, but the moment "Mechanical Turk" is uttered, some of us would ask "is this done by human?"

Plus no way that's getting VC money

worth mentioning amazons amazing high tech "put everything in your cart and just walk out" ((( https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actual... )))

they 100% use this AI "Actually Indians" technology

Destiny fan?

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You win the internets, sir.

> You win the internets, sir.

Yes, I did. By repeating someone else's apropos joke, I get to reap the sweet, sweet internet points.

downvoted for nostalgic use of Slashdot vernacular? we don't read these memetic cultural artifacts very often anymore. sometimes, you use them, just to keep them alive as a memento of a bygone era.

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