Ars: "The secret lives of Google raters"

[versailles]

Ars Technica: "The secret lives of Google raters
They spent years testing Google's algorithms—then everything changed."

"(...) The company [Google] said it was unleashing its army of over 10,000 raters, people who work around the clock to make sure Google's algorithms don't return results that are unhelpful, offensive, or downright horrific. (...)"

Read the article...

[datasciencewonk]

I keep telling all the AI hype people...

You will STILL need humanzees to assist the AI in several capacities. 

And I'm stating that from my first-hand experience with the underlying ML algs.

As to the legal issue -- I'll leave that to the Legal Eagles amongst us (not my lane!).

"Do they understand that we are people?"

No. They don't (or they don't care). In fact, I'm paid to write articles about this very subject. 

PS: Thanks for the article, Rene. I used it as a reference for one of my client articles. 

[4ebc084b]

Pls I will like to be among the Google raters, pls how do I go about it?

[tomzilla1]

AI was never designed to replace humans. It's there to assist humans in decision making, based on trained models. That's what these 10k people are doing, they're training the model that Google will use daily. Eventually the model gets so good that it makes better decisions than a single human ever will, in fraction of a second.

[4ebc084b]

Pls I will like to be among the Google raters, pls how do I go about it?