Bergen: Most companies claiming to use AI actually use human labor
Taylor Bergen · Bootstrapped to $1m in Under 18 Months, How he's growing his ATS SaaS · Aug 14, 2022 · at 10:46
Taylor Bergen, founder of Waldo Labs, discusses the reality of automation versus human-in-the-loop workflows in SaaS.
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“Well, that's the funny thing about AI. Everyone says they're doing AI and typically there's just a bunch of people behind the scenes.”
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