{"id":978388,"date":"2025-12-04T09:27:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978388"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:16:44","slug":"the-bot-coolie-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/04\/the-bot-coolie-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018bot coolie \u2019 trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early 2000s, Indian IT workers engaged in low-end, repetitive, and routine tasks \u2013 especially in call centres and BPOs \u2013 were often described as cyber coolies. Is this infamous term raising its head in the age of AI too? As bot coolies? Despite a large and growing pool of engineers and tech talent, the tech industry has lagged in creating foundational models. Many IT companies are more focused on applied\/custom AI services than cutting-edge foundational research. A lot of their work is about building and deploying AI solutions for clients, rather than doing pure research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early 2000s, Indian IT workers engaged in low-end, repetitive, and routine tasks \u2013 especially in call centres and BPOs \u2013 were often described as cyber coolies. Is this infamous term raising its head in the age of AI too? As bot coolies? Despite a large and growing pool of engineers and tech talent, the tech industry has lagged in creating foundational models. Many IT companies are more focused on applied\/custom AI services than cutting-edge foundational research. A lot of their work is about building and deploying AI solutions for clients, rather than doing pure research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}