The Case for Pseudo-AI
There are companies out there that use humans to fake their AI tech. But…why?
A lot of people are concerned that AI will replace a lot of humans who are just trying to do their boring, manual jobs. Yes, this will probably happen soon but do not worry, I have some cheerful statistics to share:
A report by the World Economic Forum shows that while machines with AI will replace about 85 million jobs in 2025, about 97 million jobs will be made available in the same year thanks to AI.
This doesn’t sound as bad, right?
But while we are concerned that AI will steal our jobs, some people do the complete opposite. This might sound weird at first but in fact, ‘pseudo-AI’ happens quite a lot in the tech world.
As it turns out, it’s pretty hard to build a service using only AI. So hard, in fact, that companies figured out it’s cheaper and easier to get humans to behave like robots than it is to get machines to behave like humans. Even in 2023.
When Google announced last year that it would stop its computers from scanning the inboxes of Gmail users for information to personalize advertisements, it didn’t say…
