Amazon was thought it was cute to call their webservices "the mechanical Turk" after the fraudulent chess-playing robot with a person inside.
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Amazon was thought it was cute to call their webservices "the mechanical Turk" after the fraudulent chess-playing robot with a person inside.
But these revelations about Waymo, and also Amazon shops... the fact they they hide and must be forced to admit "what we claimed was software is just people" isn't cute at all.
@futurebird
I always thought it was odd a company named for a dwindling rainforest called its products 'kindle' and 'fire' and now they feel very torment nexus on the nose. -
Amazon was thought it was cute to call their webservices "the mechanical Turk" after the fraudulent chess-playing robot with a person inside.
But these revelations about Waymo, and also Amazon shops... the fact they they hide and must be forced to admit "what we claimed was software is just people" isn't cute at all.
AI: Absent Indians
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Amazon was thought it was cute to call their webservices "the mechanical Turk" after the fraudulent chess-playing robot with a person inside.
But these revelations about Waymo, and also Amazon shops... the fact they they hide and must be forced to admit "what we claimed was software is just people" isn't cute at all.
The representative from Remote was, anxious to get them into a cab and to the hotel.
"We apologize for the software issue."
RemoteMaid said the property damage was due to "a bad software update." Paul could not shake the feeling that it looked like the work of a person.
Every toy in the nursery smashed, all food in the pantry crushed, clothes shredded. The scissors still rested on the dresser.
But, then he was being hurried away, as if they didn't want him to look too closely. #soon
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The representative from Remote was, anxious to get them into a cab and to the hotel.
"We apologize for the software issue."
RemoteMaid said the property damage was due to "a bad software update." Paul could not shake the feeling that it looked like the work of a person.
Every toy in the nursery smashed, all food in the pantry crushed, clothes shredded. The scissors still rested on the dresser.
But, then he was being hurried away, as if they didn't want him to look too closely. #soon
@futurebird got a link to the article you're quoting? Curious to read it…
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@futurebird got a link to the article you're quoting? Curious to read it…
I'm riffing on fiction which is a bad habit I have. Just trying to imagine where this will all lead. Apologies for not making that clear.
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Amazon was thought it was cute to call their webservices "the mechanical Turk" after the fraudulent chess-playing robot with a person inside.
But these revelations about Waymo, and also Amazon shops... the fact they they hide and must be forced to admit "what we claimed was software is just people" isn't cute at all.
@futurebird
More & more it’s seeming like ‘AI’ is basically an abstraction-layer insulting companies from labour exploitation and accountabaility.
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Amazon's Mechanical Turk was, at least, open about it being humans doing the work
not that it makes it right or anything
@yonder @futurebird Yeah, the only real problem with Mechanical Turk was how little working turk jobs paid anyone. Like low enough that even workers in 3rd world countries wouldn't find it worth their time unless they were desperate.
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@futurebird
I always thought it was odd a company named for a dwindling rainforest called its products 'kindle' and 'fire' and now they feel very torment nexus on the nose.Ok, now i feel like an idiot. It wasn't until you said that that I made the connection between "kindle" and it's meaning of setting things on fire. Until now it was always just a random word choice.
But now, and especially with the "fire stick"… I'm with you, it's a very fucked up choice for a company named after a rainforest.
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Amazon was thought it was cute to call their webservices "the mechanical Turk" after the fraudulent chess-playing robot with a person inside.
But these revelations about Waymo, and also Amazon shops... the fact they they hide and must be forced to admit "what we claimed was software is just people" isn't cute at all.
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Amazon was thought it was cute to call their webservices "the mechanical Turk" after the fraudulent chess-playing robot with a person inside.
But these revelations about Waymo, and also Amazon shops... the fact they they hide and must be forced to admit "what we claimed was software is just people" isn't cute at all.
@futurebird@sauropods.win i don't understand how every instance of so-called "reverse centaurs" like this one aren't just investor fraud and/or false advertising -
Amazon was thought it was cute to call their webservices "the mechanical Turk" after the fraudulent chess-playing robot with a person inside.
But these revelations about Waymo, and also Amazon shops... the fact they they hide and must be forced to admit "what we claimed was software is just people" isn't cute at all.
A nearby "experimental " Whole Foods had cameras overhead every aisle, and check out – free walk out of the store checkout. The experiment ended, no doubt because the "verifiers "in Southeast Asia --you didn't get your transaction record until an hour or so after you left the store-- were not cost-effective in getting rid of the clerks in the United States
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