When retailers added self-checkout the expectation was that it would save them money by offloading work to customers.
In practice they now have to worry about theft and or helping customers with ID checks for booze. Many now consider it a wash.
I honestly wonder if a similar thing will happen with adoption of generative AI. Will some businesses find it takes just as much or more work to review the output of AIs than to just have humans do it?
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240111-it-hasnt-delivered-the-spectacular-failure-of-self-checkout-technology
Dare Obasanjo /
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2024-01-16 04:34:09
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