{"id":155,"date":"2020-01-28T23:37:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T23:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/?p=155"},"modified":"2020-01-28T23:37:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T23:37:25","slug":"01-22-20-rohit-kumar-chandaluri-ghost-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/2020\/01\/28\/01-22-20-rohit-kumar-chandaluri-ghost-work\/","title":{"rendered":"01\/22\/20 \u2013 Rohit Kumar Chandaluri \u2013 Ghost Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a lot of work going on in the present technologies\nwith out us knowing about them like identifying hate speech or abusive speech\netc. All this work is done by a computer software which we call it as\nArtificial Intelligence. It is hard for a software alone to classify all the\npossible scenarios in the world to hate speech or not. So, we train the\nsoftware by providing it with some sample data and labels telling this sentence\nis hate speech and this is not. This data that is required by the software is\nprovided by humans, so for a software to evolve like a human robot it requires\nthe intervention of humans for it to develop. The chapters provided explain how\nthese data labelling is achieved and how did jobs like crowdsourcing and Mtruck\ndeveloped in the course of 10 years. It also explains how these jobs help\nsoftware systems to evolve, and how these jobs are paid on contract basis.\nThere are no legal laws that bind these jobs to provide basic necessities like\nhealth insurance, food etc., the pay for the job is decided by supply of labor\nfor that job and in some cases the pay will be less than the minimum pay\nrequired. The chapters also explain how macro and micro jobs get crowdsources\nfor very low payments making the jobs expand to any kind of area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chapters brought about interesting topic on how crowd\nsource can be used for very low prices. And it is also interesting to see\npeople making living out of these kinds of jobs. It was true that the jobs are\ninteresting and not mundane as you change your job for each different task\nwhich makes your like non mundane. The chapters didn\u2019t explain how the crowd\nsource work is validated, which I am interested to learn about. It is\ninteresting to learn that we can break a big task into small micro or macro\ntasks and get them done at a very cheaper price using crowdsourcing. It was\ninteresting to learn that there are internal crowd source jobs that exist in\ncompanies like Microsoft, Google etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Will the jobs like these develop more and cause full\ntime jobs at stake as these kinds of jobs can be used for any areas like\neducation (projects, assignments) and even macro tasks in the big projects?<\/li><li>How are people making a living out of these jobs\nby getting paid less than minimum wage, there are people who just do these\njobs?<\/li><li>How is validation of these jobs getting done,\nhow can you make sure that the task completed by the crowd source worker was good?<\/li><li>As the crowd source jobs are helping create\nautomated software\u2019s which will remove jobs of the people who are doing it as\nof now, it will also remove the jobs of simple tasks in crowd sources too as\nonce the software is developed to uncover corner scenarios we need experts\nwhich only few people will be eligible. Is crowd source creating jobs or\nremoving them?<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of work going on in the present technologies with out us knowing about them like identifying hate speech or abusive speech etc. All this work is done by a computer software which we call it as Artificial Intelligence. 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