{"id":128963,"date":"2021-10-14T03:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T10:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/much-artificial-intelligence-is-still-people-behind-a-screen"},"modified":"2021-10-14T03:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T10:22:42","slug":"much-artificial-intelligence-is-still-people-behind-a-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/much-artificial-intelligence-is-still-people-behind-a-screen","title":{"rendered":"Much \u2018Artificial Intelligence\u2019 Is Still People Behind a Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/much-artificial-intelligence-is-still-people-behind-a-screen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI startups can rake in investment by hiding how their systems are powered by humans. But such secrecy can be exploitative.<\/p>\n<p>The nifty app CamFind has come a long way with its artificial intelligence. It uses image recognition to identify an object when you point your smartphone camera at it. But back in 2015 its algorithms were less advanced: The app mostly used contract workers in the Philippines to quickly type what they saw through a user\u2019s phone camera, CamFind\u2019s co-founder confirmed to me recently. You wouldn\u2019t have guessed that from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/camfind---the-first-visual-search-engine-goes-social-300067412.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> it put out that year which touted industry-leading \u201cdeep learning technology,\u201d but didn\u2019t mention any human labelers.<\/p>\n<p>The practice of hiding human input in AI systems still remains an open secret among those who work in machine learning and AI. A 2019 analysis of tech startups in Europe by London-based MMC Ventures even found that 40% of purported AI startups showed no evidence of actually using artificial intelligence in their products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI startups can rake in investment by hiding how their systems are powered by humans. But such secrecy can be exploitative. The nifty app CamFind has come a long way with its artificial intelligence. It uses image recognition to identify an object when you point your smartphone camera at it. But back in 2015 its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}