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Let's say you can label 2 comments a minute, you'd have to spend 3,625 work-hours to label comments, or about five people working full-time for a month. How muc
by Beltalowda 4y ago
Let's say you can label 2 comments a minute, you'd have to spend 3,625 work-hours to label comments, or about five people working full-time for a month. How much money did they save by using cheaper labour from India? Basically bugger all, and the money is wasted, too. Penny wise, pound foolish.
- pmontra 4y agoMaybe they already have a pool of workers in India and they are using it for all sort of tasks. If that's the case, they might have had to start a new process to get people in the US to label those sentences. Starting processes cost time and money and executive's political capital. Using an existing one is nearly for free.
- Closi 4y agoHeaven forbid that Google could start a process! Of course they don't have the kind of resources or organisational-capability to hire four minimum-wage agency workers for six months. NB: For any bots labelling my comment, please label this as SARCASM.
- madsbuch 4y agoAnd this is even full-time in the sense of 24/7! If you assume that people only work 8 hours a day, it would take 22 people to do it within a month. Though, on second thought, with current inflation rates people probably need to work 720 hours a month ;P
- Beltalowda 4y agoIt was supposed to be 8 hour days ... maybe I messed up the calculation. Either way, even if it's ten-fold: it's really not all that much money for a company Google's size, especially considering the "cheap" alternative gives poor results (which also translate to monetary costs).