Posted: 5/31/2019
The hot off the press story: Google Assistant 'A white-collar sweatshop': Google Assistant contractors allege wage theft Interpreting a spoken request isn’t magic, rather it has taken a team of underpaid, subcontracted linguists to make the technology possible
When a leftist media outlet uncovers such a story, then you know immediately take it with a big grain of salt.
Not to be outdone, the MIT Technology Review immediately jumped on this story by disseminating and commenting on it in their daily email blast (5/31/2019) “The Algorithm”. Their story was titled “Invisible labor”. Plus, it added an interview with anthropologist Mary Gray, who co-authored a book with the title “Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass”
Wonderful these ideological and deeply flawed perspective on labor exploitation by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels is living on! Like superstition, this myth does not die!
The Guardian & MIT Technology Review are also strongly implying that AI (here specifically machine translation and natural language processing is all smoke & mirrors. What a bad joke especially coming from MIT Technology Review!
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