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Re:The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use human... by manigandham on Sunday July 08, 2018 @05:31AM (#17482900)
The business model works fine and is in-use if many industries. The problem comes from raising and spending money on beliefs that costs will reduce to 0 because of AI, which may never happen.

Sadly most of these startups could do much better by just hiring and using human staff to provide the same services.

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Re:The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use human... by bencollier49 on Sunday July 08, 2018 @05:54AM (#17482976)
Yep, agreed. The problems come from misleading people, whether that's about the privacy of the service thanks to AI, or about the Opex/Capex profile of the business as a result of hidden manpower.
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