AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto
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Next do "self driving cars"
You mean the 40 horsepower is actually 40 Indians under the hood??
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Next I'm going to find out ChatGPT is 700 thousand Indians typing really fast.
But all sharing the same keyboard? I need to understand the logistics behind that feat
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I built some of the components that went in to the test locations. Amazon had absurdly tight tolerances for the parts they were buying. They effectively wanted a shelf that was also a scale, and the tolerances they demanded weren't really necessary. So it was an insane expense but they paid it and wouldn't hear otherwise.
My company also made most of the lockers they're using in places like Whole Foods, and Amazon insisted on controlling the entire design process themselves. They sent us prints, we made parts. They made it very clear that that was the relationship they wanted, so we complied. No test runs, THAT would be too expensive. Let's just make ten thousand parts and put them together.
I would like to be very clear that in an industrial setting, this is unusual. You need something specific, you call a company that makes things like it and see if they can make what you need. You have a conversation about what you need it for and how many you want. The relationship is personal, you get to know the people around the region that you need stuff from.
Amazon swooping in with a heavy purse and a list of demands is weird, when someone kicks in your door with a stack of prints and enough money to keep the entire plant in overtime all year, it's hard to say no to that.
So the first batch of prints they send is wrong. Parts do not line up right and the doors don't even fit. We didn't discover this until 70% of the components had already been painted.
Second batch they assure us addresses the problem, we need to start over.
My friends, it did not address the problem. Half the changes they needed to make they didn't. The doors still did not fit.
3rd try, we lied and said we needed some extra time because a different client had elbowed in with a large order while they were redesigning. We had an intern recreate every print in CAD and test fit it, we ran a single batch of test pieces to assemble one row of lockers and as we were doing that they sent a revision.
They finally got their lockers, and asked for basically book dividers but insisted again on insanely tight tolerances.
After the dividers went out we stopped taking their calls.
Amazon be smokin that meth again.
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100%, but i dont think that will stay true for too long.
Of course. Just one more nuclear reactor bro, just one more trillion dollars investment bro
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Yeah the whole AWS ecosystem has a super shitty naming. Everybody knows S3, but what kind of name is that? All the other services are no better
Still better than EC2 and the likes. Where is EC1? And what about 3?
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But all sharing the same keyboard? I need to understand the logistics behind that feat
They wouldn't be able to type fast enough if they weren't using the same keyboard.
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AI stands for "actually indians"?
IP is "Infact Pakistanis"
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AI stands for "actually indians"?
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"Welcome back to tonight's episode of "Is it AI or 700 Indian Engineers!!"
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A lot of companies have been doing this for years. AWS literally sells this as a service: https://www.mturk.com/
i like that they named it after one of the most notorious instances of fraud.
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"Welcome back to tonight's episode of "Is it AI or 700 Indian Engineers!!"
I'm picturing a room of people with protractors ray tracing Doom.
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I was thinking more like Psycho Pass. The AI is its own entity, living in reality, doing the AI things that it was made to do, it's just its processing power is a bunch of human brains linked together.
Oh I see, that makes sense. I honestly need to do re run on Psycho Pass and refresh my memory. Because having a bunch of human brains linked together as a mother board is wild.
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You mean A Guy Instead?
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On the internet no one knows you are 700 Indian engineers.
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"Sachin! Quick, look up the best way to impress a first date who is vegetarian!"
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AI stands for "actually indians"?
All Indians.
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Next do "self driving cars"
Check the trunk for an Indian guy with a street map.
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Next I'm going to find out ChatGPT is 700 thousand Indians typing really fast.
Hurry! We need a photoshop of what a Col Sanders action figure would look like.
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Oh I see, that makes sense. I honestly need to do re run on Psycho Pass and refresh my memory. Because having a bunch of human brains linked together as a mother board is wild.
It is incredibly wild. That show was awesome.
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Crazy that 700 professionals in india is cheaper than a compute/data centre.
a data center isnt cheap, probably cost billions, a year to operate or millions. plus all the side effects, like power requirement and water waste.
