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How much of the AI is really automated, NLP AI and how much of it is human-augmented Amazon Mechanical Turk-level Human as an AI (Augmented Intelligence or Pseudo-AI)?

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Isn't basic latin OCR a solved problem? I wouldn't expect to have to pay a human to be able to provide it.

You'd be surprised. What if I told you Expensify uses humans to do OCR on paper receipts? You'd think computer-generated English fonts on white paper with mostly numbers would be easy for OCR. Think again. What good is a 98-99% accuracy rate when the OCR mistakes $80 for $08. It's humans in the loop. Much more than you might expect.

In such setting I would expect OCR to have higher accuracy than humans.

Apparently I would be wrong.

it's funny that this is downvoted when this has been exactly the way that many Silicon Valley tech companies have run their services behind the scenes

The dirty little secret that most don't even realize. Hey that's why data labeling / data annotation / human moderation companies like Scale, Labelbox, Hive, and others have been raising millions of dollars to fund their little worker armies.

Someone else made a similar comment, neither of us got answers even tho the creator is commenting here on other posts, so I suspect it's a lot less automatic / automated / "AI" NLP than the site might imply.

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