I think the joke is that the Jr. Developer sits there looking at the screen, a picture of a cat appears, and the Jr. Developer types βcatβ on the keyboard then presses enter. Boom, AI in action!
The truth behind the joke is that many companies selling βAIβ have lots of humans doing tasks like this behind the scene. βAIβ is more likely to get VC money though, so itβs βAIβ, I promise.
I think the joke is that the Jr. Developer sits there looking at the screen, a picture of a cat appears, and the Jr. Developer types βcatβ on the keyboard then presses enter. Boom, AI in action!
The truth behind the joke is that many companies selling βAIβ have lots of humans doing tasks like this behind the scene. βAIβ is more likely to get VC money though, so itβs βAIβ, I promise.
This is also how a lot (maybe most?) of the training data - that is, the examples - are made.
On the plus side, thatβs an entry-level white collar job in places like Nigeria where theyβre very hard to come by otherwise.
I recently heard somewhere that the joke in India is that in western tech companyβs βAIβ stands for βAbsent Indiansβ.
Thatβs simultaneously funny and depressing.
Spot on: https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots?src=longreads
Itβs also Blockchain and uses quantum computers somehow. /s