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Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.
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Valuable insight in AI another side
Detailed and structured insight into AI other side. How humans determine AI now, why low paid human work is needed for AI.
A manifest against AI, capitalism, and Israel
The book seems to have three targets: Points at the drawbacks of AI, points at the drawbacks of capitalism, and blames Israel for committing genocide. The book ignores the benefits of AI and lists just the well-known disadvantages: it rests on much tagging work, it hallucinates, it does not respect copyrights, it consumes much energy, etc. I didn’t find arguments that are not already well-known. The arguments against capitalism rest on Marxâs ideas about surplus value, and the blaming of Israel for committing genocide (with the help of AI) rests on rumors of an unknown journalist.
A very shallow and one-sided critique of AI
Yes, there are many weaknesses to AI. Yes, I am not taken in by all the hype surrounding AI.I picked up this book because I thought it would be about the innards of AI: how data is fed, how algorithms use the data, what are the limits of this approach (for example after another ten years will all knowledge be only derivative in nature (based on previously loaded human-created data)? The book does not address itself to any of these questions.It is all about requiring unions, government, corporate responsibility to fix the issues. I feel like asking these professors: how effective has that approach been against offshored exploited labor, against copyright theft by China? Why act like babes in the woods, as if the problems with AI (as they have outlined them) are new problems?It seems to me that these days most authors want to be advocates rather than thoughtful and insightful experts eager to share their knowledge. This book could have been written by an AI!
A must-read for anyone interested in understanding th human cost behind AI
This book is a fascinating deep dive into the often-overlooked labor that powers artificial intelligence. It skillfully illuminates the layers of invisible workâfrom the high-stakes decisions of investors to the meticulous efforts of data curators across the globe.
The book was very informative. AI cannot think nor comprehend as humans do. Therefore the machine requires help. That help is provided by humans. Most of these people work for extremely low wages for unbelievable hours a day per week. Their work feeds the machine and wealthy corporations reap the profits which are not shared with these people. A great expose!!!
I loved the truly global perspective. We see how the AI industry is linked to a workforce that stretches from actors in Ireland to investors in the US to content moderators in Kenya to data centre workers in Iceland to data annotators in Uganda to warehouse workers in the UK.
I found the book very insightful, as it had never really occurred to me how much basic human labour is needed to enable AI.
Anything recommended by Stephen Fry is worth a read. AI is all new to me.