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In this whole AI revolution we sometimes forget the power of cheap human labour... and if I recall correctly, that's not the first time such a thing happens. Amazon made a "no-checkout AI automated store" which was a bunch of cameras connected to a bunch of Indians. At this point, I think we should consider "Indians" a valid element of any engineering architecture, because they perfectly fill the niche where you have work that is almost easy to automate, but not quite.

Of course, "Indian-as-a-Service" doesn't sound as cool as AI, but besides this, I think it's a valid solution and a business model for many use cases.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk , "conceived by Venky Harinarayan in a U.S. patent disclosure in 2001".




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