That’s not the point at all. They wanted to automate this with computers and it failed. They had to rely on workers in India to do the analysis. That’s why they’re canceling this service.
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Krauerking@lemy.lol 7 months agoYeah this has been my biggest takeaway actually from this story circulating.
The rich and business owners have now found a way to export even basic service jobs to cheaper countries to mostly save themselves the money and reap the profits.
I’m a pretty far leftist but holy moly we really need to stop selling every job to cheap laborers because it’s only enriching those who already have enough and seems to do little good for anyone else.
SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 7 months ago
dustyData@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But AI is intelligent and sentient, just throw more server farms at the problem, right?
/s
SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I know you’re trying to be funny, but while AI does have many uses, I imagine the issue for Amazon was that much like self driving there were just too many edge cases to try to solve here.
towerful@programming.dev 7 months ago
I dont think “not wanting to outsource to the cheapest labour pool” is a hallmark of the left or the right wing.
I think “not wanting to outsource” is both progressive and anti-capitalist.
Doing things as cheap as possible, no matter who suffers, is absolutely a capitalist thing, and is why government regulation and government oversight is so important… As long as the government isnt in on it, of course (thats just a corrupt government)
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Exactly. At least here in the US, both ruling parties are 100% capitalist and exist to enrich the wealthy to an even more obscene degree than they already do.
It’s why when they ask for political donations I put that money in stocks instead.