A startup company that said it was powered solely by AI has collapsed after it was rumbled for having staff ‘pretending to be bots’.
Tech pros have been left gobsmacked after learning $1.5 billion artificial intelligence business Builder.ai has been operating behind an AI facade since its inception in 2016.
The British company emerged on the scene as a pioneering platform, allowing businesses to create applications with minimal coding through what they thought was AI.
But now, it has been revealed the code actually came from around 700 human developers and programmers from India who were tasked with acting like an AI bot.
The company has gone into liquidation (Instagram/builder.ai)
Builder.ai had made partnerships with Microsoft and had also…
