Uber's Gig-Economy Workforce Now Includes Programmers (yahoo.com) 14
Uber's gig-economy workforce now includes programmers. According to Bloomberg, "The company is expanding beyond its rideshare roots to enter a hot new market: helping other businesses outsource some of their artificial intellgience development to independent contractors." From the report: Its new AI training and data labeling division, called Scaled Solutions, builds on an internal team that tackles large-scale annotation tasks for Uber's rideshare, food delivery and freight units. According to its website, Scaled Solutions has begun serving other companies that also need high-quality datasets. Clients include Aurora Innovation Inc., an Uber-backed firm that makes self-driving software for commercial trucks, and Niantic Inc., the game developer behind Pokemon Go.
Uber's efforts to sell data labeling services have not previously been reported. The move could allow it to gain a piece of a growing market, as global companies rely on humans to vet data to train AI models. Scale AI Inc, which offers similar services, is valued at $14 billion, making it one of the hottest artificial intelligence startups. The rideshare giant has plenty of experience recruiting contractors, as it has done for years with drivers and couriers. Now the company is betting that it can help other businesses by getting enough skilled workers who can label images, text and videos with context for machine learning models to recognize patterns and make accurate predictions and recommendations.
Uber's efforts to sell data labeling services have not previously been reported. The move could allow it to gain a piece of a growing market, as global companies rely on humans to vet data to train AI models. Scale AI Inc, which offers similar services, is valued at $14 billion, making it one of the hottest artificial intelligence startups. The rideshare giant has plenty of experience recruiting contractors, as it has done for years with drivers and couriers. Now the company is betting that it can help other businesses by getting enough skilled workers who can label images, text and videos with context for machine learning models to recognize patterns and make accurate predictions and recommendations.
Waymo (Score:1)
Archie Bunker's old gig is going away. I guess he can learn to code.
Yes haw! (Score:2)
It is Amazon Mechanical Turk (Score:2)
'a crowdsourcing website with which businesses can hire remotely located "crowdworkers" to perform discrete on-demand tasks that computers are currently unable to do as economically.'
These are the jobs of the future. Humans will get paid peanuts to "rate the correctness of the AI’s answers based on several criteria".
Re: (Score:2)
I can imagine the future workplace similar to today's casinos, with people sitting in front of slot machines for days and nights hoping to win some change. But they will be pushing buttons to teach AI instead. Every now and then some "lucky" one will win a big prize, fueling the illusions of the rest of the crowd.
AI training and data labeling is NOT programming (Score:5, Insightful)
AI training and data labeling is NOT programming.
This is another copy of Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Re: (Score:2)
Exactly. Was my first thought as well.
AI Output (Score:3)
Re: (Score:2)
Is AI generated code as good as human generated code?
Only if the human is really incompetent and inventively incompetent at that. Hmm. May a bad coder on drugs?
Incidentally, since AI training always loses detail, context and accuracy, "model collapse" makes training LLMs on LLM generated content a _very_ bad idea.
Re: (Score:2)
AI is really great at generating large volumes of low quality code, so its perfect for doing web development.
The middle class is shrinking (Score:2)
See this article, for example. [pewresearch.org]
There may be a place for the gig economy, but FSM help us if it becomes the dominant form of labor in the future.
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See this article, for example. [pewresearch.org]
There may be a place for the gig economy, but FSM help us if it becomes the dominant form of labor in the future.
Shame on you for pissing on the dream of the oligarchs. The people with everything deserve to have dreams too! You monster!
Work faster, serf (Score:3)
As I recall, Facebook censors were given 2.4 seconds to reject an image.
I know what happens next to these gig-workers: "Label the next 100 images in 3 minutes, for a $2 bonus."
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when that self driving commercial truck wipes out (Score:2)
when that self driving commercial truck wipes out an school bus? How well will some county judge take lot's some businesses playing the blame the outsourcing / sub contractor game? In some rural areas that may be an criminal case.