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This is standard practice in AI training. There are countless workers in Asia (typically) who are perfectly willing to help train your algo for less pay than We
by all_blue_chucks 8y ago
This is standard practice in AI training. There are countless workers in Asia (typically) who are perfectly willing to help train your algo for less pay than Western workers, and the location where the work is performed doesn't matter at all.
What would be news is if Google were paying $11/hr + social security, etc. just to have people tell an algo which pictures have a dog in them. That would put them at a competitive disadvantage.
- kartan 8y ago> What would be news is if Google were paying $11/hr + social security, etc. just to have people tell an algo which pictures have a dog in them. That would put them at a competitive disadvantage. Yes. Sometimes maximizing profits and having a functional society where everyone has a meal and home is incompatible. I would prefer to see that the long term viability of countries is put higher up than the short term profits of companies. And that is why it is so important to set all countries to the same standards of living (on the high-end preferably).
- int_19h 8y agoThe companies are not going to do that sort of thing out of kindness. It's up to society to set up the appropriate tax regime.
- Proven 8y agoYep, giving one the opportunity to work isn't good enough, so State has to step in and create _less_ prosperity (considering that more jobs would be available, or cheaper services and products would be created with the same resources, were it not for the cost of taxes).
- all_blue_chucks 8y agoUnless you regularly pay extra when you buy things it's silly to expect Alphabet to do so.