Their business model is 90% copyright violation. Policing their site too well would just increase their liability for the infringement, or get 90% of the content removed.
Their policy is very much to ignore everything until it is reported, and there is little incentive for users to report this stuff.
Interesting. Suggesting that immigrants might not be the cause of all your problems seems to be even more blasphemous than feminism. Such wrongthink is purged even harder than criticising James Damore.
I wonder if I can create some kind of metric to measure this.
If Amazon has work for 100 people they will hire 100 people, regardless of if they make 5% profit or 3% profit on their labour. It's still a net win, they still need those people to keep growing the company.
At most it slightly alters the formula for when a robot is cheaper, but not by enough that it matters much.
Indeed. I'm lucky that I can be picky about what job I accept, and using bots, silly tests or other daft interviewing techniques is a sure sign that I don't want to work there.
Unfortunately, for some people that's a luxury they don't have, and they are the ones who need protection the most.
AI could actually help here. If AI could look at all the applications and find some non-graduates with good skills who were likely to stick around for the long term and work their way up, that would actually be a great benefit to the restaurant over graduates who will leave the moment they can get something better.
We have let in 20-30 million low skilled workers since then. That's why the supply of low skilled workers is high and exceeds demand.
If nothing else had changed then the economy would have grown enough to create jobs for them. More people means more retail opportunities and services.
What did happen is businesses got more efficient. They need fewer people to do the same work. Electronic cash registers with high speed bar-code readers and a computerized database back-end make processing supermarket sales much faster per employee. Now we have self-service where a single employee can manage a dozen checkouts.
Same in most low skill jobs. Automation, power tools and changes to business practices have reduced the number of jobs in those sectors, while more open up in services that are only recently becoming possible to de-staff.
If anything immigration helped a lot of natives by creating demand for the service jobs they replaced their old manual labour jobs with.
I'm a feminist and I do want to talk about this. Sorry to so bluntly prove you wrong.
Anyway, yes, that was an interesting but not entirely unexpected result, and one which feminists have been studying for a long time. Doesn't just affect women, it affects people with disabilities, people who didn't go to university, older/younger people (depending on the job) etc.
For example, say you have a degree in "Mathematics (Computing)". Even though your age was hidden and work history truncated to hide how long it is, the fact that you got your degree back before Computer Science was even a thing gives the game away. Even just the phrasing you use can give away that you graduated long before more recent trends.
This has been understood for a while now, and it's a difficult problem to solve. And even if you can somehow obfuscate CVs effectively, eventually there is going to be a face-to-face. When you think that even things like a bad Skype connection can scupper your interview, you start to see how arriving in a wheelchair could throw people off or how subtle differences in the way women (and many men) talk can make them seem less "confident" or whatever.
The only real solution anyone has found is to normalize those things until they stop becoming a subconscious issue. Nordic countries are leading the way but it is very hard to do in some cultures.
Apparently not. You seem to think that the author is implying this was deliberate. It's not, it's just a known issue caused by centuries old systemic problems that we need to carefully avoid perpetuating with bad AI.
If you have decades of experience, you have referrals
Not so much in retail and many other sectors, and especially if you have to move.
It's also hard if you switched careers at some point, or if you just didn't go the usual university route into something like software development but are still able to do it and demonstrate that knowledge. University is not the only way to acquire that knowledge.
There is also just straight up laziness. Retain management jobs that list a degree as a requirement because they can't be bothered to determine if you can do basic arithmetic or check your reading comprehension.
These forms are often used to actively discriminate, because their operation is opaque and it is extremely difficult to prove anything when the computer says no.
For example, they often ask what your highest level of education is. Never mind if you have decades of experience and professional certifications, if you didn't get an undergraduate degree you get instantly declined. That can make it very hard for people who have the skills but didn't go the traditional university+debt mountain route. You can't even write a cover letter to get your foot in the door.
Actually, we do. Studies have found that even having a female dominated HR division still tends to favour men in most instances. Counter-intuitive if you are the kind of person who assumes genders will "stick together" and are inherently biased in favour of their own, but anyone familiar with the past century of academic work on the subject will be unsurprised.
White men program it, so it can't be fair... god fucking damn hypocritical sexist, racist twat.
"because most programmers are white men, these AI are actually often trained using white male faces and male voices"
They identified an issue with the data and it's likely cause... and you somehow took that to mean that the author was blaming the developer's race and gender, rather than the poor quality of their work.
Anyone who understands AI will tell you that your training data needs to be representative of the data the AI will operate on and the decision making criteria. The people building these things are incompetent and made ridiculous assumptions, and the author is calling that out by explaining their mistakes.
It seems like criticising a white male these days will instantly bring out people screaming sexism and racism and hypocrisy, which is rather ironic.
I do remember, but it's not a criminal conspiracy. Facebook is allowed to help anyone they like, as long as it is all done with consent and doesn't break any election laws.
Can you cite the specific rule or law she broke and why she has evaded prosecution for it? Seems rather odd that she is untouchable, yet the President of the United States can't even shake this off.
New companies usually take many years to become profitable. There are big start-up costs, and then the company grows and has to invest. Paying staff a living wage would simply delay the time until they are profitable, that's all.
Then, $10k x 82k workers = $0.82 billion = 1/3 greater than profit, so it was not fully affordable.
So if the law required them to pay that much, what would Amazon do? Say "screw it, shut down the warehouse, we can't afford it" or rake in the billions in turnover with a view to the massive profit they will make the next year?
The issue is that Amazon is on corporate welfare. They don't pay staff enough to live on, and rely on government hand-outs to keep them alive and healthy enough to keep working in their warehouses.
Amazon is the worst kind of welfare freeloader. Big profits, can easily afford to pay a living wage, but they don't because they know that the government will give them free money. That's free money on top of the tax breaks they already got just by playing states and cities off against each other when locating warehouses, and by incorporating in some tax haven and licencing their own name back to themselves.
All it takes is for one law to mandate better working conditions and Amazon will have no choice but to offer their staff better conditions. This kind of exploitation is why we have laws like the minimum wage, health and safety standards, working time limits etc. - if we didn't it would just be a race to the bottom.
Even back when Obama was first elected people knew that his campaign had a very advanced social media strategy and did a lot of work with data. The difference now is that companies like Cambridge Analytica are not playing by the rules. They are breaking Facebook's terms, and more importantly they are breaking the law in multiple countries.
It's fine to mine social data with consent. People actually want that, they want to be part of a campaign and install the app to help themselves campaign on their candidate's behalf, in the full knowledge that it will look at their relationships and behaviour.
It's not fine to steal that data and violate numerous data protection and privacy laws.
In fact my first Leaf is now a taxi. 200k with no major parts to service, just tyres and washer fluid. It's got an Uber sticker on it but it's registered to some taxi company.
Strange, EVs are ideal for that weather. Presumably you have lots of charging for ICE cars to run their engine block heaters already. Even though EV batteries get less range when very cold they don't fail to "start" or anything like that, and handle really well in snow and ice.
It's no wonder that Norway has some of the highest EV adoption in the world. They work much better than ICE cars in that climate.
Indeed, I'd much rather they spent money on zero emission cars so that I didn't have to breath their pollution.
Taxi companies are finding EVs to be ideal for their needs. Low running and maintenance costs, charging fits in with mandatory driver breaks although many go all day on one charge, and no detours to get fuel. Fitting that into Lyft's business model would be an achievement.
if you replace the word "Romulan" with"White Male" in the diatribes of the inquisitor she ends up sounding indistinguishable from a modern day SJW.
That doesn't make any sense. White males are a majority in the US, for example, where as half Romulans in the Federation are a tiny minority. Picard is defending the minority against someone who is suspicious because one of his parents was foreign born, and a member of a race who is perceived as untrustworthy and devious by many in the Federation.
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Their business model is 90% copyright violation. Policing their site too well would just increase their liability for the infringement, or get 90% of the content removed.
Their policy is very much to ignore everything until it is reported, and there is little incentive for users to report this stuff.
Interesting. Suggesting that immigrants might not be the cause of all your problems seems to be even more blasphemous than feminism. Such wrongthink is purged even harder than criticising James Damore.
I wonder if I can create some kind of metric to measure this.
Sorry guys I forgot that "I'm a feminist" is your trigger phrase.
If Amazon has work for 100 people they will hire 100 people, regardless of if they make 5% profit or 3% profit on their labour. It's still a net win, they still need those people to keep growing the company.
At most it slightly alters the formula for when a robot is cheaper, but not by enough that it matters much.
Indeed. I'm lucky that I can be picky about what job I accept, and using bots, silly tests or other daft interviewing techniques is a sure sign that I don't want to work there.
Unfortunately, for some people that's a luxury they don't have, and they are the ones who need protection the most.
AI could actually help here. If AI could look at all the applications and find some non-graduates with good skills who were likely to stick around for the long term and work their way up, that would actually be a great benefit to the restaurant over graduates who will leave the moment they can get something better.
We have let in 20-30 million low skilled workers since then. That's why the supply of low skilled workers is high and exceeds demand.
If nothing else had changed then the economy would have grown enough to create jobs for them. More people means more retail opportunities and services.
What did happen is businesses got more efficient. They need fewer people to do the same work. Electronic cash registers with high speed bar-code readers and a computerized database back-end make processing supermarket sales much faster per employee. Now we have self-service where a single employee can manage a dozen checkouts.
Same in most low skill jobs. Automation, power tools and changes to business practices have reduced the number of jobs in those sectors, while more open up in services that are only recently becoming possible to de-staff.
If anything immigration helped a lot of natives by creating demand for the service jobs they replaced their old manual labour jobs with.
I'm a feminist and I do want to talk about this. Sorry to so bluntly prove you wrong.
Anyway, yes, that was an interesting but not entirely unexpected result, and one which feminists have been studying for a long time. Doesn't just affect women, it affects people with disabilities, people who didn't go to university, older/younger people (depending on the job) etc.
For example, say you have a degree in "Mathematics (Computing)". Even though your age was hidden and work history truncated to hide how long it is, the fact that you got your degree back before Computer Science was even a thing gives the game away. Even just the phrasing you use can give away that you graduated long before more recent trends.
This has been understood for a while now, and it's a difficult problem to solve. And even if you can somehow obfuscate CVs effectively, eventually there is going to be a face-to-face. When you think that even things like a bad Skype connection can scupper your interview, you start to see how arriving in a wheelchair could throw people off or how subtle differences in the way women (and many men) talk can make them seem less "confident" or whatever.
The only real solution anyone has found is to normalize those things until they stop becoming a subconscious issue. Nordic countries are leading the way but it is very hard to do in some cultures.
In this case the implication is clear.
Apparently not. You seem to think that the author is implying this was deliberate. It's not, it's just a known issue caused by centuries old systemic problems that we need to carefully avoid perpetuating with bad AI.
If you have decades of experience, you have referrals
Not so much in retail and many other sectors, and especially if you have to move.
It's also hard if you switched careers at some point, or if you just didn't go the usual university route into something like software development but are still able to do it and demonstrate that knowledge. University is not the only way to acquire that knowledge.
There is also just straight up laziness. Retain management jobs that list a degree as a requirement because they can't be bothered to determine if you can do basic arithmetic or check your reading comprehension.
These forms are often used to actively discriminate, because their operation is opaque and it is extremely difficult to prove anything when the computer says no.
For example, they often ask what your highest level of education is. Never mind if you have decades of experience and professional certifications, if you didn't get an undergraduate degree you get instantly declined. That can make it very hard for people who have the skills but didn't go the traditional university+debt mountain route. You can't even write a cover letter to get your foot in the door.
Actually, we do. Studies have found that even having a female dominated HR division still tends to favour men in most instances. Counter-intuitive if you are the kind of person who assumes genders will "stick together" and are inherently biased in favour of their own, but anyone familiar with the past century of academic work on the subject will be unsurprised.
White men program it, so it can't be fair ... god fucking damn hypocritical sexist, racist twat.
"because most programmers are white men, these AI are actually often trained using white male faces and male voices"
They identified an issue with the data and it's likely cause... and you somehow took that to mean that the author was blaming the developer's race and gender, rather than the poor quality of their work.
Anyone who understands AI will tell you that your training data needs to be representative of the data the AI will operate on and the decision making criteria. The people building these things are incompetent and made ridiculous assumptions, and the author is calling that out by explaining their mistakes.
It seems like criticising a white male these days will instantly bring out people screaming sexism and racism and hypocrisy, which is rather ironic.
It doesn't actually say that though, does it? It says that the training data set is flawed.
I do remember, but it's not a criminal conspiracy. Facebook is allowed to help anyone they like, as long as it is all done with consent and doesn't break any election laws.
Can you cite the specific rule or law she broke and why she has evaded prosecution for it? Seems rather odd that she is untouchable, yet the President of the United States can't even shake this off.
Read that article very carefully. It doesn't say that broke any Facebook rules or laws.
It says that the app used people's contact lists, with their permission, to suggest people to send messages to encouraging them to vote.
New companies usually take many years to become profitable. There are big start-up costs, and then the company grows and has to invest. Paying staff a living wage would simply delay the time until they are profitable, that's all.
Then, $10k x 82k workers = $0.82 billion = 1/3 greater than profit, so it was not fully affordable.
So if the law required them to pay that much, what would Amazon do? Say "screw it, shut down the warehouse, we can't afford it" or rake in the billions in turnover with a view to the massive profit they will make the next year?
The issue is that Amazon is on corporate welfare. They don't pay staff enough to live on, and rely on government hand-outs to keep them alive and healthy enough to keep working in their warehouses.
Amazon is the worst kind of welfare freeloader. Big profits, can easily afford to pay a living wage, but they don't because they know that the government will give them free money. That's free money on top of the tax breaks they already got just by playing states and cities off against each other when locating warehouses, and by incorporating in some tax haven and licencing their own name back to themselves.
All it takes is for one law to mandate better working conditions and Amazon will have no choice but to offer their staff better conditions. This kind of exploitation is why we have laws like the minimum wage, health and safety standards, working time limits etc. - if we didn't it would just be a race to the bottom.
Even back when Obama was first elected people knew that his campaign had a very advanced social media strategy and did a lot of work with data. The difference now is that companies like Cambridge Analytica are not playing by the rules. They are breaking Facebook's terms, and more importantly they are breaking the law in multiple countries.
It's fine to mine social data with consent. People actually want that, they want to be part of a campaign and install the app to help themselves campaign on their candidate's behalf, in the full knowledge that it will look at their relationships and behaviour.
It's not fine to steal that data and violate numerous data protection and privacy laws.
In fact my first Leaf is now a taxi. 200k with no major parts to service, just tyres and washer fluid. It's got an Uber sticker on it but it's registered to some taxi company.
When your argument comes down to accusing me of what you just did and then calling me an SJW, that means you lost.
Strange, EVs are ideal for that weather. Presumably you have lots of charging for ICE cars to run their engine block heaters already. Even though EV batteries get less range when very cold they don't fail to "start" or anything like that, and handle really well in snow and ice.
It's no wonder that Norway has some of the highest EV adoption in the world. They work much better than ICE cars in that climate.
Indeed, I'd much rather they spent money on zero emission cars so that I didn't have to breath their pollution.
Taxi companies are finding EVs to be ideal for their needs. Low running and maintenance costs, charging fits in with mandatory driver breaks although many go all day on one charge, and no detours to get fuel. Fitting that into Lyft's business model would be an achievement.
if you replace the word "Romulan" with"White Male" in the diatribes of the inquisitor she ends up sounding indistinguishable from a modern day SJW.
That doesn't make any sense. White males are a majority in the US, for example, where as half Romulans in the Federation are a tiny minority. Picard is defending the minority against someone who is suspicious because one of his parents was foreign born, and a member of a race who is perceived as untrustworthy and devious by many in the Federation.