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.

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    8 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.

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      8 months ago

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

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        8 months ago

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