• TheMightyCat@ani.social
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      2 days ago

      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

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        No? Where have I excluded that option? If for normal volumes 100 employees are need to process. And with AI only 50 are needed, then it’s still cost saving?

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          If we’re making up numbers my point is that with 100 employees using AI you get 2x the quality than 50 employees using AI

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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.

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              Hardly, you need to maintain the same numbers to double check the work of AI. Haven’t improved throughput, but this guarantees better quality

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                If we accept that employees spend the same amount of time as without AI but now the error rate is reduced then yes. I don’t think that is the case but I don’t have the numbers so who knows.