Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
WTF are they doing that still needs 6000 people?
Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
WTF are they doing that still needs 6000 people?
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.
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?
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.
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.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Because 90% accuracy is acceptable for financial institutions …
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Right. So, generating training data :-)