Jesus christ these headlines mislead everything.
They were using machine learning to try and figure out what people were buying. Machine learning has lots of errors until you train it. The “hundreds of workers” were training it by telling it what each thing was.
The goal was to train ML enough so that humans were rarely necessary, obviously.
Gigan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They found a way to outsource grocery store employees. great
Krauerking@lemy.lol 7 months ago
Yeah 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.
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)
SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If we are in an era of economic wars, can we get laws to charge companies with treason?