Big Tech Is Faking AI 

*AI = Associates in India*

Imagine your Job is taken from you by AI but it is not really AI but 1000 underpaid people in India 💀💀 how ironic.

I'm a programmer. My company's earnings call says we're investing in AI more than our competitors, and the investors went wild. Think about that. INVESTORS are clapping that we are SPENDING the most money on AI. Not results. Not profits. Not customer satisfaction. Handing money to scammers is what investors are paying for. My comoany also fired tons of people because mumble mumble AI. And guess what? We are all up to our necks in unfinished work. The same amount of work still needs done. There are just less people to do it. And no, AI isn't making us faster. These companies will be hiring like mad soon.

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Hey we never said AI was "artificial intelligence", we use our own proprietary "Attentive Indians" technology.

I added AI to my Breakfast café logo and we started having more clients, the hype it's unreal and ridiculous. It started as a joke but people actually ask us how are we implementing AI in our kitchen.

AI is the new website bubble. Remember when anyone who had a website automatically meant they increased their share price?

It's a pump and dump. And I know this because I got an email from Samsung that let me know that their new Vacuum now "comes with A.I." This will end the same way as the NFT pump and dump

" @AuthorJMac: You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes. "

Took me a while to realize that these "AI" are just rebranded 'Im feeling lucky" from google search.

What's really scary is they're letting doctors etc. use this stuff... I've done some AI data training at work and it's impossible to train these models to stop "hallucinating".

I used to work for a company that used "AI" to convert photos of houses into blueprints for home renovation and insurance purposes. But by "AI" they actually meant "a bunch of underpaid people in Ukraine." Then the war broke out, and hoooo boy did that mess things up.

I worked as a data scientist at an "AI" startup with big clients and I can tell you that our models would just give suggestions to our analysts (who would't use it most of the times) and wouldn't make any actual decisions. Now I am working at a company that wants me to get "AI" to do something that can be done by regular software. It's all just marketing.

I hadn't heard about Amazon's walk out technology just being a bunch of people in India watching the CCTV. That's hilarious.

When I explain that all I do to create an AI model is literally write a simple program in R-Studio and hook it up to an excel spreadsheet, it pretty much shattered the illusion for anyone who asks me. These models are not even tangentially useful for most things.

This is not even new technology 🤦🏻‍♀️ Japan has auto-grocery stores that you don’t need to checkout for years.Faking it is so embarrassing

This is the REAL danger of AI in my opinion. Companies or governments duping people into thinking they have some amazing algorithm to make decisions without bias when in reality it's just some people behind the scenes picking the winners and losers.

Search engines have gone way down in usefulness in my 28 years of Internet use. Behind the scenes they reword your search terms to words that will benefit their advertising business. If Reddit has the info you need it is often the better option to find the info.

Picking what you want, walking out and relying on some automated system to identify what you took and bill you for it later sounds like one of the worst things I can imagine.

The problem is all these companies who loudly talk about using AI in their processes actually spend money on ChatGPT licences, buying AI enabled servers all to just boost their share prices which ironically does boost share prices of companies like Nvidia which just triggers a FOMO cycle of sorts

i have always suspected "we dont know whats happening in the black box" actually meant "please dont look in the black box it has evidence that im plagiarizing"

I studied AI 20 years ago. Then, there were several problems with "AI" and I lost interest apart from Expert systems, so called. So when the big fuss kicked off, I thought "oh, they must have solved the issues". No, they haven't. It's as problematic as it always was. Just faster. bigger. Still untestable. Still suffers from false maxima. Nothing remotely close to AGI.

*2004:* egg timer with a switch *2024:* Egg Cooking AI

Lol. In the metal shop I work with they're "using AI" to monitor safety habits through shop cameras. This comes down to checking for people not wearing gloves, not wearing the right gloves, not wearing safety glasses, not wearing earplugs (somehow), not wearing face shields when grinding, ETC. The problem is that AI has absolutely no sense of depth or field of perception so if it loses track of your hands at all, it assumes you're not wearing gloves. If it can't see your transparent safety glasses, it assumes you're not wearing safety glasses. If you're grinding and the sparks go in front of your face shield, it assumes you're not wearing your face shield. If you start welding, it assumes you're not using your hood. If your hood is personally bought (they all are) it assumes you're not wearing a hood. If you have a sticker on it or paint it like everyone does, it assumes you're not using one. If your leathers get covered by soot, it assumes you're not wearing leathers. They have on guy in each building monitoring thousands of flags an hour because of security and personal security reasons - almost all of which are invalid and the sample sizes are waaaaaay too small to even use this system for with anything you could even call efficiency. And they had a meeting to tell us all that they're seeing improvements in safety, which is actually untrue in real numbers. Companies lie about everything. Literally everything. They spend $5 mil on a machine, it somehow pays itself off in a year even though it actually puts out less product and takes more people to run it more efficiently. They cheap out on training people in operating and maintaining the machine so the machine crashes constantly. Every. Single. Real. Number. They give out is fabricated. I would not be surprised at all if we see a national economic crash stemming from fake numbers of production values and false representation of efficiency stemming from people just trying to keep their jobs after they notice the problems. Then after the problem becomes so bad it isn't notice, their bosses cover for them because they also know they should have known and never let the problem get that bad. It's the same problem that has been fucking up the economy for decades with every new technology overpromising returns (machines, computers, Internet communication, Robots, and now AI) but it's just happening faster and faster and growing more and more out of control because 'regulation is bad' and 'auditing is a waste of resources.'

How isn't it illegal to mislead investors like this?

The amount of times you mentioned AI in this video should get you massive traffic and algorithm favorability. Well played!

Until we see a sentient machine, completely aware of its own existence and capable of original thought, artificial intelligence doesn't exist. I'm so sick of machine learning being labeled "AI"...

So basically Amazon just figured out how to out source service jobs to India….

How many of you hate the automated voice redirection? I work for a bank..they removed people and setup this nonsense. Now we take 2 week extra time to resolve the issue

A recent, short conversation between my boss and my team: "We need to use AI" - "We already do. We just don't call it AI anymore, because it actually works."

AI is the new gold rush. And Nvidia is the one selling the pickaxes.

The "AI" branding was always a marketing move, the same technologies were described as machine learning for a long time before midjourney and the GPT boom

Sasha just discovered how the entire software industry's been operating for the last 30 years.

Finally, someone who sees the bs. I'm a programmer and have worked in numerous industries. I've seen all the bs.

It's a dystopic world when Reddit, 4chan and AI are the last bastions of truth, thought and opinion when the rest of Google SEO gives us generic surface level results from literally Buzzfeed and Kotaku. And it's creepy that AI isn't really AI after all.

"A.I" is just applied stats. Neural networks have been around since the 1960's. They just find patterns in data, chasing an objective (such as next word prediction). LLMs will never be as good as a pocket calculator for adding numbers, even in 200 years time. They are a form of artificial narrow intelligence (not general), because their use cases are restricted to fuzzy, unstructured data, such as semantics (sequences of text), images (pixels), and audio (waves). That said, there's amazing applications to be found within those domains.

The head of OpenAI was asked if they use RU-vid videos in their data sets. She paused, looked really uncomfortable, and couldn't answer. She couldn't answer because they'd get sued.

My favourite rant of the year! This AI label on everything is driving me nuts! Well said about Bing stealing.

My wife worked as a search rater for a bit, if you don't mind simple repetitive work it's good pay for no qualifications and work from home There's way creeper projects too, like one from bing where you just get shown pictures from random people's cloud storage and have to identify if the ai identified their friends correctly

The tech industry has been so embarassing for so long.

AU has replaced the word Algorithm as the corporate buzzword for anything that calculates anything. 99% of CEOs saying AI don’t know what an AI is

completely true. the only part I dont agree with is that this Generative AI will replace every single skill in the world. The NVDIA CEO is a snake oil salesman

The whole point of AI is that the software trains itself, not is trained by a room of people. That is a knowledge based system, the technology of which has been around forever. They have just rebranded KBS as AI. None of the so called AI stuff out there is true AI technology.

Amazon be like: "we made an AI that detects cheese" *pulls out a box of rats

Most "real" AI isn't even AI, it's just more complex ML. It's doesn't understand anything, it's calculating probabilities. OpenAI isn't understanding your question, or even sentences, it's just calculating the most likely next word, it does that pretty good, but it has inherent issues.

The reddit traffic boom is probably robots scraping the site, they used to have pretty permissive API access but they ended that around a year ago, I think it was close to the date of the traffic boom you noted.

Reminds me of when I liked to imagine for fun that ATMs actually have a little person inside, with some machine to make all the noises with

Sports analytics companies are another example of this. There are companies that claim to have computer vision systems that can watch sports games and record all the players' stats/actions. I've worked at one of these companies and their "computer vision AI system" was a bunch of guys who were watching the game and manually inputting all the data.

I was still there when google was all about : text only ads in your search and you can directly reach your responses. Indeed, these days are double youtube ads, scam ads, deepfake ads, google with image ads ... we sank deep down from where we started.

As I said before . People have no idea what is going on behind the curtain . Trust me, I work in Data for insurance company

I have no problem if AI being faked becomes a widespread thing, do you really want AI to become smarter than humans? For what?

I kind of prefer the way the Internet was before it was possible to earn money on websites. Google ad services have been an absolute blight upon the digital landscape.

Google says it was doing Machine learning, I spent time in Kenya Nairobi that had warehouses of low cost staff clicking dog and cat pictures.

5 years ago every CFO mentioned cloud on earnings calls .Last year AI was the nom de guerre on earnings. Next year it will be Robotics.. Humans love a story to explain things.

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10:35 This is something that has been driving me crazy, companies asserting that they aren't storing training data cause its in the model and not directly in a database is maddening. As a software developer if I hardcoded news articles into my application that data is still being stored even if its not in a file for that specific data or in a database, its still a copyright violation if I then distribute that application. Storing data in an AI model after training as mathematical patterns is no different than directly storing that data in a database

As an admin user of a CRM, I talked the client out of wasting their money on the new AI feature of said CRM. It is just a weak search engine marketed as "AI".

Totally noticing the demise of all the search engines usefulness, can't find anything on Google now. Surely an opening for an engine which doesn't feed you crap. The ai answers you get and the ai generated web pages are easily identified by their flimsy content.

Love this! I was at an insurance software conference in the US in 2002. One company was advertising automated application / claims forms scanning technology. You uploaded the scanned document to an API and later on you could query the API to get the text version. I looked at the rep, asked how that was possible (remember this was over 20 years ago) and told him I thought they just had a bank of people who typed out the content. The look on his face told me I'd got it right! The interesting point is that this service is now genuinely available to everyone, so I wouldn't totally diss AGI happening at some point.

I remember when this happened about 20 years ago with a service named Jott. It was stated or at least implied that the service used algorithms to transcribe voice messages to emails but it turns out the company used its startup funds to hire a bunch of Indians to do it. I got the same vibe with Wendy's "AI" ordering system that was demoed in the last week or so. The delays are long enough for a human to process the order in the background.

Well said. AI is going to lead to virtual mountains of "garbage out". Finding truth will become a real challenge.

Let’s not forget about the Cruise Robotaxis in San Francisco which turned out to be remotely controlled far more frequently than we were led to believe.

1:20 the term AI is not an academic term, or a protected business term and has no true meaning. AI is and will continue to be solely a hollow marketing term. What I have seen is MANY companies have just started to replace the words software and "smart" with "AI". Its just straight non-sense

Remember how WeWork was a tech company? Yeah, now everyone is an AI company

I remember the Aloe Vera craze back in the 2000s. Aloe Vera soap, cream, make up, infused this that and the other… you know when they’re really taking the piss when you go to the local petrol station and see: Aloe Vera car wash for a gentler wash for your car. 😂😂😂 King Kong sized bs

Spot on. Whether I have an online retail enquiry, comparing insurance, doing research, troubleshooting, sorting purchase, have a tech query, need to sort something out, an AI chat bot has always been helpful and solved the issue - NOT. EVER!

I don't know about anyone else, but it seems to me like main takeaways here are that 1) a lot of people who have the funds to become major investors in these companies actually aren't very smart (or, at minimum, are very easily led), and 2) the people running these companies have no problem taking advantage of this while pumping out products that range in quality from mediocre to a complete fraud, in order to take advantage of these gullible people with money- and any consumer stupid enough to trust the company's products.

The reddit thing started 1-2 years ago cause people noticed that asking google a question and putting "reddit" at the end, will give them the answer they are looking for, instead of just random google results... so that started a feedback look that lead reddit in the eyes of the google algorithm... pushing reddit results up

As someone working in tech I am glad to see you call out this BS hype machine. Yes Ai will have a impact on society. But right now a lot of it is based purely on higher ups in in tech company fear of being left out and pushing any garbage with the word AI attached to it.

Chat GPT isn't and AI. It is a well trained bot. It doesn't learn from my communication with it, keeping giving me wrong advice it already got pointed out was wrong previously.

This whole "AI" thing reminds me of a video on RU-vid called _Dueling Carls, a "Talking Carl" Scream Fight_ This is effectively what "AI" is in a nutshell.

I think Google’s obsession with the #2 could be a callback to Larry and Sergei.

So, this would definitely seem to imply that Amazon's "predictive recommendations" on ads or the marketplace was really NOT the result of an algorithm AT ALL and it was our phones eavesdropping on us the entire time, EXACTLY LIKE WE ALWAYS THOUGHT.

Whaaat? You're telling me that businesses are saying they have the greatest buzzword that's has happened recently and actually DON'T?!? That's absurd!

Something I think isn't mentioned enough is that pretty much every massive data set used to train AI like chatgpt is manually made from underpaid labor mostly in african and asian countries painstakingly labeling and tagging images, text, or videos, or some ither kind of data. The verge has an article on this titled "Ai is a lot of work", its a good read on whats behind the curtain of how these giant datasets that make AI possible are made

I love how AI is always on the verge of major breakthroughs, like in 2011, when Siri came out and barely worked, and then Google Assistant came out and worked ok, and Alexa came out and worked about as well, and then Google and Amazon got busted for using people to generate the results, so then Assistant and Alexa started to suck. And then, when Apple had major improvements coming to Siri in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, but nothing changed but the voice and that Siri became able to open apps and run some simple automated scripts. Let’s be real- if any of these companies had an actual AI breakthrough, the most logical use of that technology would be to fire the CEO, COO, CFO, and all the other executives, and replace them with the AI. And don’t think that the guys who run Apple, Google, Microsoft and all the rest don’t know it.

I wish Amazon would just walk out.

Bing AI is specifically designed to use Bing search results and combine them using GPT4. That’s its purpose. It’s utilizing the summarization capabilities of LLM.

My confidence in "AI" took a big hit when I tested it to save time in researching various obscure-ish hardware. I would ask questions like, "What chipset is device X based on?", and get a confident and correct looking response naming a chipset. Then I would manually validate that information, and be unable to find any source anywhere that stated this information. Finally digging into datasheets, I'd see that the AI was completely wrong. I'd ask a followup question like "How did you arrive at that answer?" and the AI would come back with something like "I just reviewed my answer, and realized that it is not correct. The actual chipset is Y based on these sources."

Yesterday at work someone got a local government document with a code on that none of us had seen before. Now, those codes are always on those documents and usually there's a summary of what they mean as well, which gives us an idea if how to classify it. (I swear this is relevant to the video.) This one didn't have a summary, so we looked it up. The first result and Bing's AI answer were both very obviously wrong in the same way. The summary they gave was for one of the most common codes, possibly THE most common one. What I think happened is that the AI (I suspect the first result was also AI generated) couldn't find an answer to what this very obscure code meant and instead of answering "I don't know" it returned the most common answer to similar questions. In this case we knew that answer was wrong, but how often does it do this with questions it can't answer and how much trouble can those incorrect answers cause people that don't know better.

There are some legit use cases for LLM's, one of them being a "regurgitate what you read and give me the abridged version", along with generating things like schemas, pojo's and table creation scripts based on json data for example.

I wonder if RU-vid's AI or an actual person will demonetise this video. Thanks for exposing this BS.

This is correct in some fundamental levels (such as the few examples given in the first half) but so wrong in so many other levels (such as AI is just stealing content and does nothing else). If the latter was true, it wouldn't be able to solve novel math questions or pass humans in cognitive reading tests. Check out the latest report on the "AI Index" from Stanford University, for instance. We surely have something at our hands that is way beyond any technological advancement humans have ever accomplished in their 300.000 year history. Also, the telltale sign of exaggerated AI-criticism is the fact that all videos in this vein tend to say "Yes, AI will of course improve our lives and it's definitely here to stay." If AI was all bogus currently, these creators wouldn't be able to claim it this confidently. So what they're doing is cherrypicking some extreme examples (which, to be honest I completely agree that it is REALLY annoying since what these tech bros do doesn't serve any meaningful purpose other than keeping the excitement up, make some quick cash, and then leaving a bunch of people feeling tricked) and paint the current AI wave with the broadest possible brush. GPT-4 is DEFINITELY something humans has never seen before (and if what tech leaders say is 1% true, GPT-4 will be just a toy model very soon). And a single example of asking Copilot about a VERY GENERIC thing like a "Las Vegas trip" is definitely not enough to show its capabilities or weaknesses. There are a bunch of benchmarks for this (while each of these benchmarks may not be perfect, when used in conjunction, they tell the real story of how AI is performing). GPT-4, LLAMA 3, Claude Opus, etc... If you actually add these to your workflow and if you actually interact with them for more complicated tasks, you will soon find out that these are definitely not mindlessly stealing website content (or at least, that is definitely not their main mode of their operation 99.9% of the time). You will see that they are not regurgitating random samples of the web like this video claims for 13 minutes of a 14-minute long video. Creators should do better than just merely going against a "mainstream" and instead, try to educate the public on the truths AND falses of the revolution we're in. Yes, the current AI boom can be likened to the Internet bubble of 2000's (in terms of the "feel" of it). Then let me ask you this: What exactly happened to the Internet in the next, say, mere 25 years? It's like THE LIFE right now for so many people and businesses! We can't even imagina a life without it! It's everywhere and it created so much more value than that disappeared in its "bubble" phase. And I can guarantee you that a thing that can create its own designs cannot be compared to a thing just connects multiple computers across the world to one another. All in all, let's not get ahead of ourselves when criticising the current hype. Those that actually lie will be eliminated, for sure! But it would be childish and plainly wrong to purport this as "the whole AI boom". Instead, if anything, one should focus the criticism on the ongoing culture in the Silicon Valley instead of the tech that actual scientists and researchers have been building inside the academia and outside of it (like... in Silicon Valley) for so many decades now.

Its impossible to find any information of value on Google now. Rampant AI articles with wrong information. The internet is dead.

Fucking admire you Sasha. Просто прекрасно. An excellent video denouncing big corps abuse, you should get huge credit for this.

I had a past client which we were assisting with due diligence for a company that had an AI chatbot. We recommended not to buy it because it looked like vaporware.... The client ended up buying the startup company. It turns out they had a team of 100 in the Philippines answering as the AI chatbot. It took the client a year to finally figure it out why there were large payments to the Phillippines but def shows this is happening from small to large companies continuing a 'Wizard of Oz' veil with tech. Don't get me started on tech debt and how many companies are on the brink of cyberattacks and catastrophic problems as they bandage shitty code.

It’s interesting to watch things like this, because I used to do this for work. It’s not all folks in Indian, it’s folks from all over the world, and they’re generally not employed traditionally. Anybody can go out and do it (although it’s not for the faint of heart, it’s incredibly boring, underpayed, and your treated like a cog in a machine). Mturk is a big example.

AI being faked is going to be a big thing and India will benefit

AI is just excel with a Vlookup and a macro

Even worse. They are using the word AI ( artificial intelligence) when actually it is VI ( virtual intelligence). The difference is like night and day.

So basically all of these companies are doing exactly what they did at Theranos but none of the CEOs at those companies are going to be held criminally liable for fraud.

Question is, are they purposely preventing AI from advancing, and also, if they are against people finding out about the fake-AI marketing to increase share prices, why is Google permitting this video on their RU-vid platform…unless they *want* this video released in the first place, for some reason?

Abbey National used to do the same with automated loan applications…they were literally being printed and inputted by hand in the back office 😂

-So, AI is just a scam? -Always has been.

A poster on redit found their post was on the daily mail web site as an article the next day

When I shop at Decathlon, I put my basket. It scans & accurately provides the total cost. I am scanned my credit card & I am done. So why does Amazon not have it?

Hi Sasha, I'm a big fan of your videos and I agree with many of your viewpoints. However, I think there might be a slight misunderstanding regarding how the Bing AI works. This AI is allowed to search the internet for references on the fly, including your webpage which it references. When I tried your webpage was the first referenced and linked to. During the training phase, the AI model doesn't learn or memorize the content of your and every webpage verbatim. It simply can't store all that information in its parameters.

What they call "AI" is not even AI

Thank you. I have suspected this for sometime. I work in law and I now have a new job, to make sure the attorneys didn't use "AI" and every program we get to help with our work, that is "AI" doesn't work. Get this message out.

Anybody that's been forced to use those crap chatbots knows just how rubbish these automated processes are.