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Monday, July 9, 2018

Fake AI

From Grauniad of the UK

-Do you work here?
-Yes.
-Are you one of my humanoid robots?
-No, I'm one of your employees, Sir.
-Employees? Human employees, you mean? And please call me Charles. Charles Chester.
-Yes, my name is Jack Trip, Mr Chester.
-Right, Jack. You look and behave so much like a machine that, for a split second, I thought you were a Replicant V 6.50. Take this as a compliment, by the way.
-A compliment, Mr Chester?
-Yes, the Replicant V 6.50 is far more intelligent than the average employee here -- artificial intelligence, but intelligence all the same.

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George Orwell could have written this (quote): It’s hard to build a service powered by artificial intelligence. So hard, in fact, that some startups have worked out it’s cheaper and easier to get humans to behave like robots than it is to get machines to behave like humans.
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The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work


Using what one expert calls a ‘Wizard of Oz technique’, some companies keep their reliance on humans a secret from investors.

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