New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- An artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to monitor workflows and detect inefficient parts has been attracting flak online. Developed by Optifye.Ai, a member of startup accelerator Y Combinator's current crop of Unicorn foals (as hoped), this software alerts managers to what's slowing operations down.

To advertise it, Y Combinator put out a video clip that shows the startup's co-founders Vivaan Baid and Kushal Mohta role-playing a manager and shop-floor supervisor who spot a laggard on the assembly line, thanks to AI-enabled cameras and computer-vision software, and pull him up. The worker says he's having a bad day, but the duo look at his work-log on a screen and tell him it's more like he's having a bad mo...