AI Deception: How Tech Companies Are Fooling Us

thinking AI is doing your self checkouts and then finding out its just 1000 people in India watching the cameras 24/7 sounds like a good south park episode

Imagine buying an AI Sex Bot only to find out that it is just some guy back in India.

I work in an aerospace MRO company and the marketing team is now labelling EVERYTHING a computer in our company does as “AI powered”… Literally techs that existed decades ago (FEA simulation, self-filling forms, automated tool management system, data analytics tool, etc) is now “AI powered” just because they r jumping on the trend. Management is now even encouraging engineers to consult chatgpt for our calculations… while i know for a fact it cant even convert some units correctly. This is ridiculous

AI has replaced between 60-100 people from the company I currently work for... And complaints from clients have increased..... Great informative video. Thanks 😊

Let's not forget, Mark Cuban was 100% all-in on NFT's and defended $43 million Bored Ape prices.

What surprises me the most is the fact that Amazon was trying these "walk out" stores in the US where people already perfected this type of shopping.

Cleaning toilets for a living might be the shittiest job I've ever had, but at least AI is unlikely to replace me.

AI is like 30 years ago when Intel used the term "MIPS" to promote CPU performance. MIPS stood for "Meaningless information to promote sales"

"Full Self Driving" ...actually just some dude halfway around the world remotely turning your steering wheel.

Just wait until they find out that every Alexa actually has a tiny person in it.

I would go further: we don't actually have AI. We have machine learning, which has shown itself quite good at faking intelligence, but not actually intellifent. ChatGPT, under the hood, is an overpowered autopredict.

In my country, there are literally freelancer jobs where you identify text in an image and put it in a document. I looked into the company paying for these freelancers and they market their service as 'AI-powered' image to text conversion.

I worked for an accounting company from France that used hundreds of cheap laborer from Madagascar to manually input data from photos of actual bills people uploaded believing it’s OCR. Nowhere they mentioned it’s all done manually.

Wait, Amazon did something dishonest and unethical!? Gosh that's so out of character for them...

I say an advert of either Twitter or Reddit yesterday by Samsung stating that their new vacuum cleaner, not an automated one like a Roomba but a handheld one, used AI. It's a handheld vacuum cleaner.

A friend of mine is an electronic engineer with +30 years experience, so he started working with paper and pencil. He once told me :"now with a computer I can do in a few hours what once would have taken me days of work, but I still have to stay at the office 8 hours every day". I don't know what's gonna happen with the job market, but one thing's for sure. The rise in productivity is goign to go all in the pockets of the proprietors.

My problem with AI is it is fundamental a statistical model based on large amounts of data. The key is the quality of the data initially used and used to update the model. It doesn't actually think in any real sense of the word. AI is very susceptible to "Garbage in, garbage out".

The biggest sign we are in a bubble is experts saying we are not in the bubble.

I am a programmer and I have fully embraced using AI technology the moment it was available. Working inside of these tech companies I can comfortably say that AI is not the reason for tech layoffs. In fact the majority of the companies I work for will not even allow the use of it within the company. The bubble may be making companies more comfortable greatly cutting staff in the promise that they don't need those workers but its not reality. Most of it is being driven by market uncertaintay due to insanely high interest rates to curb inflation. Its a sledge hammer that kills the entire tech industry.