Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Financial services, so probably transcribing people’s shitty scribbled expense reports into actually usable structured data, and doing it flawlessly enough they don’t get sued.

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  • Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Can we start placing bets on when we find out that the “AI tools” they’re using are just sweat shop workers in Bangladesh processing invoices?

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    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Eh, I know this is the anti-AI instance, but reading and interpreting things like that is something you can verifiably get AI to do 90% of the time.

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      • scintilla@crust.piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Hell USPS has been using machine learning (yes a kind of AI but not the kind they are implying) for years to do that kind of thing.

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      • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Because 90% accuracy is acceptable for financial institutions …

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  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Right. So, generating training data :-)

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