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AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto

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to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago
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An ambitious company that claimed to make apps using AI has been exposed as hundreds of human workers based in India.
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  • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org
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    AI stands for “actually indians”?

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      Always Infosys

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      I’m waiting for “generalized” actually Indians

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        You mean A Guy Instead?

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      IP is “Infact Pakistanis”

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        And what’s TCP/IP?

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      All Indians.

  • Armand1@lemmy.world
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    Gets “AI”

    looks inside

    Badly paid employees

    • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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      “Actually Indians”.

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    Ahh yes, the mechanical indian

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      The Indian Turk or short IT-worker.

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    Crazy that 700 professionals in india is cheaper than a compute/data centre.

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      700 professionals in India probably make more coherent software than AI.

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        100%, but i dont think that will stay true for too long.

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          In the meantime. This is a valid business model.

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            Depends what you mean by “valid”. If you mean “profitable”, sure: Fraud has always been a profitable business model.

            But if you mean “valid” in terms of what Microsoft got out of their $455M investment, not so much, as they wanted a great new AI model, not the output that the “human-powered” model produced pretending to be an AI.

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          Of course. Just one more nuclear reactor bro, just one more trillion dollars investment bro

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            Oh is that what itll cost? /s

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              Yeah. Trust me on this, bro

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      a data center isnt cheap, probably cost billions, a year to operate or millions. plus all the side effects, like power requirement and water waste.

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        I can run a small model on my home pc, if i had access to those kinds of resources, i could run a AI data centre for profit, probably more rssource efficient than those 700 dudes as well.

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    Next I’m going to find out ChatGPT is 700 thousand Indians typing really fast.

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      It would save electricity

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      That would explain why it sometimes gets sluggish!

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      But all sharing the same keyboard? I need to understand the logistics behind that feat

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        They wouldn’t be able to type fast enough if they weren’t using the same keyboard.

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      Hurry! We need a photoshop of what a Col Sanders action figure would look like.

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      Oddly between 5pm and 6am Delhi time.

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    First to push forward and invented AAI, Artificial Artificial Intelligence.

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      Let’s see them compete with natural stupidity

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    What do you mean the new llm I invested in is just 700 Indians in a trench coat?!

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    in a trench coat

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    "Welcome back to tonight’s episode of “Is it AI or 700 Indian Engineers!!” 👏🏾👏🏾 👏🏾

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    AI: always Indian

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      Actually Indian

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        All Indian

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          Another Indian

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    On the internet no one knows you are 700 Indian engineers.

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    but it turns out all that cash was going toward a workforce of over 700 Indian engineers, rather than an AI.

    I doubt much of that cash was going to their workforce. Should have though.

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    Next do “self driving cars”

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      You mean the 40 horsepower is actually 40 Indians under the hood??

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      Check the trunk for an Indian guy with a street map.

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    I’m being increasingly convinced that when we do develop true AI, it’ll actually be just a massive array of interconnected human brains in a secret facility somewhere.

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      Someday, that’s what we’ll be sold as “The Singularity”. Some company like Apple or Google will offer us ascendance into the cloud, but we’ll actually just become digital slave labor.

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        Plot twist, the future envisioned in the matrix basically does come to pass, except it’s not machines turning humans into power, it’s the ultra rich turning humans into processing power.

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      So essentially, wouldn’t that be similar to the Matrix movie? Except without the sea of pillars of bodies lined up and down in a cocoon sludge of goop. Connected by wires to feed off of our energy as a source of elixir. But a basement somewhere where we are jacked into a reality to where we can’t distinguish it between reality and virtual reality. I can definitely see that. The future is crazy for sure and how far we have reached with AI is bloody scary and horrific. Like not itself but in the progression aspect of it.

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        I was thinking more like Psycho Pass. The AI is its own entity, living in reality, doing the AI things that it was made to do, it’s just its processing power is a bunch of human brains linked together.

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          Oh I see, that makes sense. I honestly need to do re run on Psycho Pass and refresh my memory. Because having a bunch of human brains linked together as a mother board is wild.

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            It is incredibly wild. That show was awesome.

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        repair station in enterprise, where the AI maliciously kidnapps humanoid aliens and uses thier brains to power ever increasing cpu

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      thats the repair station on enterprise, the AI was using kidnapped humanoids brains to power its processing capabilities.

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