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Big Tech Is Faking AI (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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A new report has shown that Amazon's "Just Walk Out" AI checkout process is actually processed by 1,000 staff in India.Tech companies are under pressure to d...

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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

reading the same script of text

Audio testing? I was involved with a thing like that at one point. For a major telecom. Just a whole room of people of different accents reading the first page of the Great Gatsby and recording.

[–] mrnarwall@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I was never told exactly what it was for. My suspicion was that it seemed more like acquiring training data for an audio processing machine learning library. This was about 10 years ago, so after the likes of siri, but way before something like chat gpt