• zbyte64 ( zbyte64@awful.systems ) 
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    Because the alternative to saving money with AI is providing better services with AI - if it can be done. And the people to do that are the people doing the job.

    • TheMightyCat ( TheMightyCat@ani.social ) 
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      Why are those mutually exclusive?

      If a human clerk handling applications or something makes an error 1 in a 100 applications and an AI system has the same error rate but is far cheaper. Then quality stays the same.

      • zbyte64 ( zbyte64@awful.systems ) 
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        Because now you exluded the option of having the employee choose which applications to have Ai process and which need human review - the option that delivers the most quality

            • TheMightyCat ( TheMightyCat@ani.social ) 
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              I’m making up numbers because I don’t have the actual numbers and 2x is easy for the example, insert whatever numbers you like.

              The issue with that statement is that putting double the employees on a project doesn’t always improve its quality.

              If we go with the numbers we have been going with and a employee with AI is twice as productive then adding AI effectively doubles the time available. This only leads to a quality increase if work was being cut short. If each employee already got the required time necessary to handle a application with full quality then you haven’t increased quality but the capacity. If the now increased capacity is far above normal volume it is a waste to have so much excess capacity.