No, it is a teenage boy from Mombasa.

Gets "AI"

looks inside

Badly paid employees

Sure, but you still shouldn't be selling the technology as actually working, instead of developing.

Amazon bought whole foods a while back. What would have stopped them from just collecting the data in their own stores, and then developed the tech?

Hint: shareholder value.

What would have stopped them from just collecting the data in their own stores, and then developed the tech?

I won't pretend that Amazon avoided that due to ethical concerns, but doing that would have almost the exact same ethical concerns.

All they had to do was run the tech alongside traditional cashiers. Make it known on entry, and your fine. No ethical concerns.

But what they did was sell tech they didnt have to shareholders to pump up the stock.

From an engineering perspective they didn’t want to do this since it’s not just about AI tasks. If you go watch videos of it they have camera arrays and special shelf layouts and all sorts of stuff.

Not to mention the engineers probably wanted to be able to test it privately and without disrupting an actual store and community.

So it’s what I would’ve done as well frankly

Next I'm going to find out ChatGPT is 700 thousand Indians typing really fast.

I hope this isn't part of a larger trend of human labor being devalued because companies pretend it's just machine labor. I hope that's literally impossible.

Actually Indians

Next I'm going to find out ChatGPT is 700 thousand Indians typing really fast.

All they had to do was run the tech alongside traditional cashiers. Make it known on entry, and your fine. No ethical concerns.

But what they did was sell tech they didnt have to shareholders to pump up the stock.

Crazy that 700 professionals in india is cheaper than a compute/data centre.

Peoole aren’t appreciating just how bad these things are because they’re misinterpreting it. The goal of what they are doing here and with Amazon was never to just fake the technology right. The goal was to fake that the technology existed by using humans to do an automated thing and then to leverage that into making it actually automated.

But essentially what that means is theyre inventing technology that hasn’t been invented yet and selling it to you and the reason for doing so is to replace you with technology before it can even technically happen.

It’s essentially like someone building a new automated factory and telling workers at their other locations that they can’t be hired there since it’s automated but then someone goes inside and finds out they’re just using child laborers until the robots are ready and also robots haven’t been invented yet.

They’re using blood to grease wheels that don’t even exist to turn yet.

A lot of companies have been doing this for years. AWS literally sells this as a service: https://www.mturk.com/

Someday, that's what we'll be sold as "The Singularity". Some company like Apple or Google will offer us ascendance into the cloud, but we'll actually just become digital slave labor.

What’s next? Am I going to find out my AI girlfriend is actually a real woman? Smh my head, can’t trust anything these days