The Great AI Swindle?

Remember that time that some humanoid robot that Elon Musk was trying to big up turned out to just be a guy in a robot suit, because, obviously, Musk couldn't come up with the tech necessary to produce an actual robot for his demonstration?  Or is that just some kind of false memory I've manufactured for myself to bolster my hatred of Musk?  (Not that I have to make things up about him - he's a human dumpster fire as it is).  Real or not, it set me to thinking - maybe this is the real truth behind Musk's ventures - it's really all just him behind a curtain, like the Wizard of Oz.  His AI, for instance, with its latest lurch to the extreme right in its answers after a Musk-inspired tweak because he didn't like its answers when it based them on actual facts, sounds suspiciously like Musk himself.  Calling itself 'Mecha Hitler' and praising the Third Reich and trading in anti-Semitic jibes makes me wonder whether it actually is just Musk himself responding to questions.  Perhaps that's the real reason why he had to leave his role in the Trump administration - he just didn't have time to shut down entire departments and put thousands of Federal employees out of work and respond to all those requests for information on his AI.  After all, he is someone with form for thinking that he can carry out major tasks through unilateral personal action - just look at the way he seems determined to boost the white overprivileged population through personal fornication.  Maybe that's why his rockets keep exploding - he insists on assembling vital components himself.

But perhaps all AI is like that.  That's the big secret they want kept under wraps: nobody has actually been able to come up with an algorithm that turns out anything other than utter crap.  Instead, to hide their embarrassment at having wasted billions of dollars on developing a crock of shit, these big tech companies now employ an army of poorly paid human beings (probably in China) to respond to the people using their AI products.  Every time you make a request, it goes to some techno sweat shop, where these guys furiously tap away on their keyboards to try and get answers via search engines.  Which is probably why web search has become so crap - Google wants to drive the public to using AI for searching the web, so only offers a shitty version of its own search, reserving the real Google search engine - which can deliver near-perfect, entirely relevant, search results - for these armies of below minimum wage drones mining away at the coal face of the information highway.  But what about the images and stuff that AI produces, I hear you ask.  Well, that's done the same way - they have teams of underpaid artists who can knock out a quick interpretation of any image request (there'll be one lot dealing with cartoons and sketches, another with photo images and others doing oil paintings and watercolours and so on).  Which explains why such images are often so wide of the mark  - the cue was misunderstood or they just didn't have time to come up with a better match.  It's probably why these so called AIs sometimes seem to fantasize and make stuff up - these guys just don't have time or simply can't be arsed to come up with a proper answer.  Believe me, this is the reality of AI:  it is entirely created via manual human labour. Which is ironic as it is the ambition of the likes of Musk to use it to completely remove human beings from the decision making and knowledge building equation.