Artificial intelligence will give work to the people

People will complement the work of the machine or control its quality.

When the first printed books with illustrations began to appear in 1470-ies in the German city of Augsberg, engravers began to oppose. Fear of losing their jobs, they literally stopped the presses. In fact, the demand for their services due to the emergence of printed books increased, because someone had to illustrate them.

Fear because of the impact of technology on employment from time to time POPs up to the surface. The last concern due to the emergence of artificial intelligence. But again, the technology only creates the demand for work.

This writes The Economist, adding that more and more people provide e-services online through something called the “human cloud”. I didn’t realize that a lot of people doing it, answering the query of artificial intelligence.

According to the world Bank, more than 5 million people already offer their services remotely via platforms such as Freelancer.com or UpWork. They perform a wide range of tasks: from developing Internet sites to legal writing. For these people get are usually a few dollars per hour. In 2016, total revenues amounted to about $ 6 billion, according to research by Staffing Industry Analysts. Additional earnings can be obtained on Mechanical Turk service, which is run by Amazon. About 500 thousand people on this website decode chunks of audio recordings, getting a few cents for each task.

Many large tech companies are hired through outsourcing firms thousands of people who look after their services, controlling the quality. Google has an army of 10 thousand “evaluators” who view videos on YouTube or testing new services. Microsoft has something called “Universal Human Relevance System”, which performs monthly millions mikrososudah, such as checking the results of search algorithms.

The number of such people in the service of techcompany will increase. One of the reasons is the increasing demand for “content moderation”. For example, a new law in Germany requires from social networking for 24 hours to remove illegal content that incites hatred or deny the Holocaust. At the same time, companies are threatened with heavy fines. Facebook has announced that it will increase the number of their moderators in the world for three thousand people.

Artificial intelligence will destroy some forms of work to be performed by software. But it will also create demand for other types of electronic work. Technology can handle large amounts of data and mathematical calculations, but they also depend on data cleansing people.

For example, Autonomous vehicles to recognize road signs and pedestrians need algorithms that are trained using a large number of videos. And these videos must have the mark made by hand, which would have made it clear the car, where the signs are, and where people. This work is doing to thousands of people. And when the algorithm is working, people will have to follow, whether he performs its task.

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