Don’t Be Fooled: Much “AI” is Just Outsourcing, Redux | TechPolicy.Press
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Janet Vertesi is associate professor of sociology at Princeton University, where she is an expert in the study of science, technology, and organizations.

The promise of AI, for corporations and investors, is that companies can increase profits and productivity by slashing their reliance upon a skilled human workforce. But as this story and many others show, AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced companies and workforces for decades.

  • eleitl
    108·
    2 months ago

    There is no real AI out there, yet.

    • jsomae
      62·
      2 months ago

      semantics. Nobody agrees on the definition of AI. It’s not a meaningful ststement to say no “real” AI exists. Be more specific about what exactly is missing instead.

      • eleitl
        2·
        2 months ago

        Full human equivalent across all capabilities. Gen AI fails pretty much everywhere.

        • jsomae
          2·
          2 months ago

          Then yes I agree with you. We’re not there yet.

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      1·
      2 months ago

      You are perhaps confusing the highly-general term “AI” for the more-specific term “AGI”. It’s true that there’s no real AGI out there yet, but AI has been around for many decades. LLMs are a type of AI.