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Re:Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string by netsharc on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:16AM (#23748087)
Didn't some "AI" companies get caught doing basically this? Even Alexa had people listening in to the audio commands, AFAIK if the command could not be understood.

The question smells like one of those "Solve my homework/work assignment for me" questions.

Re:Parsing city of origin and destination city from a string by nikanj on Monday July 06, 2020 @07:09PM (#23753805)
"We're using human-assisted-AI in phase one to enable a faster market entry, and are confident fully-AI-enabled technology is ready for rollout soon" is a surprisingly reliable way to get massively funded.

The horde of mechanical turks is really expensive, but with near-infinite VC capital, many labor-intensive white-collar markets can indeed be thoroughly disrupted.

Selling ten-dollar bills for five dollars each is guaranteed to gain traction, and you just need to convince investors that you're just a few quarters away from being able to print your own.