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> Audio validation: Listen to a short audio clip and determine if the pronunciation sounds natural in your language.
If this is something you're interested in doing, I recommend contributing to Mozilla's Common Voice instead. Common Voice builds freely licensed (CC-0) voice datasets that can be used by anyone, not just Google:
Perhaps ~2 decades ago I would've been a bit more optimistic, but now that I'm aware of the authoritarian dystopia which Google and the rest of Big Tech are trying to drive society towards, I feel obliged to point out that helping it achieve that goal is a really bad idea.
It's crazy how many people jump on doing surveys for free , and even in creating content for social platforms daily for free, because it's promoted by billion dollar profit companies that could easily hire and pay people while still making good profit.
The free labor economy is insanely out of control now, and accurate truths about the exploitation and data mining never will be discussed because these companies can easily suppress and downvote them. I don't do any surveys, haven't since before the Cambridge Analytica story.
And I'm quite sure people criticizing this won't be using it :)
Ultimately crowdsource leads to UBI powered by Google. It's inevitable. But one entity controlling our lives is very hard to accept even if it is Google.
UBI also provides income when the recipient performs no work at all for whatever reason. Why would a company support that?
Tens of millions of Americans can effortlessly live in luxury relative to our ancestors. Most of us on this forum could retire to a poorer country and live comfortably off savings alone. We don’t.
It's no longer a market dominated by labor. Factory jobs are a nearly-extinct fraction of what they once were. Office jobs have dried up and pushed 30M people into service (flipping burgers) at a fraction of what they used to earn.
When service jobs become automated (happening at a breakneck pace?) then what? "The workers own the means of production" becomes an empty phrase when there are no workers in the plant.
Lots of hyperbole about changes caused by UBI, particularly in apocalyptic scenarios. But the alternative may be, let them starve? Because that's a conspiracy-theorists preference?
Maybe we slide into complacency and sloth, but I doubt it.
Personally, I think it would free up more time for things like parenting and education, and working out political differences with words, not weapons.
Don’t you think that could increase the pool of STEM candidates from poor families without creating a large new subculture like you’re describing?
That being said, I don’t think even a greater UBI would decrease STEM candidacy. UBI would have to be massive before people stop wanting to be in STEM. If anything, the problem would be that we lose the bottom rung of unskilled labor.
The fact that Google supports major open-source projects today is a good indicator that they're perfectly capable of participating in widely beneficial projects that only benefit them indirectly.
https://research.google/tools/datasets/open-images-extended-...
Another negative would be release of Bad Words or illegal content submitted by malicious users. Depends on the task.
But the actual raw data would be of more use to researchers than one cleaned from an output of algorithms. Perhaps there could be a program for educational researchers?
Food compare: Compare the characteristics of two food images.
Response rating: Evaluate the natural-ness of a bot response.
Audio donation: Record your voice to improve speech technology.
Food facts: Tell us if a food dish has particular characteristics.
Food labeller: Tell us what food an image contains.
Semantic similarity: Judge whether two phrases have the same meaning.
Chart understanding: Judge whether charts are understandable and trustworthy.
Glide type: Glide your fingers on the keyboard to type the text that you see.
Audio validation: Listen to a short audio clip and determine if the pronunciation sounds natural in your language.
Image label verification: Tell us if images are tagged correctly.
Image capture: Collect and share photos of your part of the world.
Translation: Translate phrases and words into different languages.
Translation validation: Select which phrases are translated correctly.
Handwriting recognition: Look at handwriting and type the text that you see.
Sentiment evaluation: Decide if a sentence in your language is positive, negative or neutral.
Smart camera (Android Lollipop 5.0+ required): Point at an object and see if the camera can guess what it is.
Even in those 3 datasets, Google does not disclose the proportion/percentage of the crowdsourced contributions that are released publicly. I would not contribute to Crowdsource with the expectation that my contributions would help build a freely licensed dataset.
Looks like the releases will only be partial. This kind of data should be collected bu a nonprofit for the benefit of everyone.
Who even comes up with these things?
I hope there are some fun 4chan stories of people breaking classification.
I can do some free work for wikipedia, osm or the like. But not for Google.
But you get fun out of it! And you make a difference (in Alphabet's bottom line).
Imagine if it was a beanie baby instead man. I think those are going to the moon.
Media has too much fear to talk openly about what's happening with Google from some time ago.
Also a trillion dollar plus market cap company trying to get free labor? Seriously?
When you comment on Yelp, Google Maps review, YouTube it's same.
(...subsidized by the huge amount of ads inserted everywhere)
I call this “digital tunnel vision”.
Yes, and also to the word "exciting", the most overused word in the history of all human language.
If not, maybe add a (2016).
How would they weed out bad-faith players who would try to teach the AI bad ideas, just for, well, fun of it?
I don't believe they might fail to anticipate that; I want to understand their approach.
> Help Google create AI that understands your language and culture. Make your favorite apps and services even more useful and delightful for your community.
They do provide many free services. Google Maps being one of them, you liked their product and used it and it was very useful hence you contributed back to improve it.
If you had paid for their services then you could complain but if you are using it for free then don't use it for free and then complain. You could always use other products or paid products like GPS from garmin.
I don't understand why so much hate towards companies which are supporting free products and enriching lives of billions of people.
If these free products were not there can you imagine how so many poor people across globe could afford free internet technologies?
// Not google employee, opinions are mine.
Consider before Google Maps. You'd either (a) buy a local map every few years (b) pay for a car navigation system. Now Google comes along and offers you a free maps and navigation service and you're complaining that if you try to make it better you're being screwed over? IT'S FREE!
In overall the point is similar to everyone's complaint on Google, "User data is being used to their favour" but my expectation is for Google to openly and visibly tell that so all the competitors have level playing ground.
> "Connect with others around the world"
The only connecting I'd want to do is with Chinese people to practise my Chinese. Inwhich my horribly broken Chinese would be a detriment to the algorithm.
> Get Recognized: earn cool badges, level up on the leaderboards…
Ok
"But you can look at this image of a medal"
Don’t feed the FAANG.
Don't like their products then don't use it. Use alternative.
They built one of the best products hence most of the world is using it.
Your comments are demonstrably disingenuous. You can't really opt-out. Employers, friends, family, partners, colleagues, peers, etc all rely on you relying on the FAANG/MAAMA networks and network-effect one way or another whether we want to or not. These companies provide what have become public utility services that large parts of society now depends upon.
"Best products"? (this was the troll right? ;) More like "only products", with positions that were achieved in no small part through anti-competitive, anti-consumer behaviours that have run almost unchecked for the better part of two decades.
So what alternative are you talking about? Opting out? That's only an option in the same way that you can theoretically "opt out of society" and go and live in a cave for a year or two before you die of malnutrition/illness/etc.
It's a capitulation to the embedded powers-that-be to imply this theoretical qualifies as practical alternative.
Even buying public transport tickets gets hard without the app, which of course is not on F-Droid. Often you pay more on other channels.
PS. The 1960's called and wanted their slogan back: "Fight the computer, fold your punch-cards."