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by AlexandrB 241 days ago
Isn't this the purpose of a lot of AI? To provide "good enough" alternatives to human labor. Why would anyone expect AI to make things better rather than cheaper or more profitable?
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In this particular case, it seems mostly use cases that were solved some decades ago with _barcodes_, so it's not even cheaper or more profitable. There's already an alternative to human labour which works for better for this sort of application.
Computers can do some things better than humans; recognize and generate speech, when accents are involved at either end.
And nag and upsell well past the point humans feel comfortable doing.
Except there's still a human that has to confirm everything the computer did