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

• Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because 90% accuracy is acceptable for financial institutions …

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      • XLE@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’ve got an idea. If 90% of AI’s output is accurate, just have humans review the 10% that will be inaccurate.

        (Yes I am an AI expert, how did you know)

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      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, it’s really not. Thus the 6000 remaining employees.

        (Assuming this is a significant part of their business)

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    • scintilla@crust.piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • Paradox@lemdro.id ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Kind of

        They’ve had several address resolution centers around the country, where reviewers look at mail and figure out it’s address. They don’t physically handle the mail, it’s an image on a screen.

        Iirc they’ve been doing it this way since the 70s

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    • Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Until you realize those 10% errors missed the decimal point.

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      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Again, that’s what the 6000 remaining employees would be for.

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• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Right. So, generating training data :-)

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