How Artificial Intelligence is Still Mostly Human-Sourced

There is a lot of buzz nowadays about Artificial Intelligence (AI) starting to be present in our lives: virtual assistants and else. However as this excellent article in Bloomberg shows ‘The Humans Hiding Behind the Chatbots‘, this AI is still very much human powered. We are not really talking only to a clever machine, but to a system that is still highly facilitated by humans.

Like the chess machine, humans “turks” often hide behind Artificial Intelligence!

AI will certainly become sometimes in the future a real feature in our environment. For the moment we mainly observe systems that do increase human productivity to respond to requests. The limit is fuzzy to a real AI system that is only being administered, but we can be on the safe side to affirm that real independent AI it not there yet.

In fact, numbers are not known precisely but moderation on all social networks is certainly one of the first tasks that could be handed over to AI and at the moment it is still very much human powered (using workers from low wage countries). And that may remain the most economic option for a while.

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