Tech life is rarely dull. Partly because so many "great advice" articles I see don't accord with my experiences.
For example, in one of my feeds is a piece: "SQL Query Optimization for Data Engineers" of which half the things in it would be bad advice in my work.
Data engines and query optimisers vary so much that many "expert" assumptions prove false on them.
There's really no substitute for:
- understanding how your platform really works;
- trying out multiple ways.
#datawork #SQL
Découvrez les coulisses pour comprendre d'où vient la magie de l'IA
Rencontrez les "data workers", ces humains cachés permettant de faire tourner les intelligence artificielles dans le documentaire "Les Sacrifiés de l'IA".
Disponible en replay sur France TV :
https://www.france.tv/documentaires/documentaires-societe/6888928-les-sacrifies-de-l-ia.html
➡️ https://vignette.eco/allerplusloin%3Ejournal/_ls5kO/fr
#IA #AI #dataworker #datawork #starterpack
Transnational #datawork in #AI is associated w/ precarity, harm & invisibility in the Global South, but even within formal employment, AI supports deskilling and marginalization
Chaudhuri & Chandhiramowuli on annotation work at an AI start-up in India: https://doi.org/nvzj
Transnational #datawork in #AI is associated w/ precarity, harm & invisibility in the Global South, but even within formal employment, AI supports deskilling and marginalization
Chaudhuri & Chandhiramowuli on annotation work at an AI start-up in India: https://doi.org/nvzj
📢 🇪🇺 Am 21. November sprachen erstmals Datenarbeiter:innen im EU-Parlament über die prekären und ausbeuterischen Arbeitsbedingungen in der #KI-Branche. An ihrer Seite stand Weizenbaum Forscherin @milamiceli
Hier gehts zu Bericht 👇
https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/datenarbeiterinnen-im-dialog-mit-dem-eu-parlament/ #euparlament #eu #work #arbeit #datawork
IA : Au Parlement européen, des travailleurs du clic appellent à réguler l’entraînement humain
https://next.ink/159416/ia-au-parlement-europeen-des-travailleurs-du-clic-appellent-a-reguler-lentrainement-humain/
#next #ia #europe #datawork
On November 11, in the last installment of the Data Workers Inquiry Talk Series, we will talk about who else is forced into data work, and what that looks like. Our guests from the Writers Guild of America, the Guerrilla Media Collective, Arte es Ètica and the @DAIR discuss the growing pressure to reduce their creative work into data points.
📅 November 11, 5pm CET
🌐 English with captions
➡️ Register now: https://events.zoom.us/ev/AoEkvePmTHAKVpasFIEsgtOhjo05XHtj3bcYn0rgaFtkmUpudYOB~AoUrcNrrBxZzhu2yox7LZ7992KVbxOWg5EH4lILGm2SSBlakP-nLYXjdxg
#AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #DataWork #Inequality: "Labor plays a major, albeit largely unrecognized role in the development of artificial intelligence. Machine learning algorithms are predicated on data-intensive processes that rely on humans to execute repetitive and difficult-to-automate, but no less essential, tasks such as labeling images, sorting items in lists, recording voice samples, and transcribing audio files. Online platforms and networks of subcontractors recruit data workers to execute such tasks in the shadow of AI production, often in lower-income countries with long-standing traditions of informality and lessregulated labor markets. This study unveils the resulting complexities by comparing the working conditions and the profiles of data workers in Venezuela, Brazil, Madagascar, and as an example of a richer country, France. By leveraging original data collected over the years 2018-2023 via a mixed-method design, we highlight how the cross-country supply chains that link data workers to core AI production sites are reminiscent of colonial relationships, maintain historical economic dependencies, and generate inequalities that compound with those inherited from the past. The results also point to the importance of less-researched, non-English speaking countries to understand key features of the production of AI solutions at planetary scale."
We are pleased to offer early access to our new study: “Global Inequalities in the Production of Artificial Intelligence: A Four-Country Study on Data Work” (Brazil, France, Madagascar, Venezuela). It will soon appear in The Handbook of Digital Labor. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14230
#artificialintelligence #datawork #france #venezuela #brazil #madagascar #supplychain #globalization #inequalities
Today, AI is still powered by millions of data workers, both men and women. In Victorian England, many of the same data tasks were performed by "lady computers". Though they were recruited at Cambridge colleges, they got paid as little as £4 per month. Same old story.
#womenintech #historiofai #datawork #digitallabor #steampunk #retrofuturism #historyofcomputing
The next event from the Data Workers' Inquiry series is coming up on October 21 and will cover data work and mental health.
More about the project: https://data-workers.org
#event #OnlineEvent #data #DataWork #DataWorkers #technology #BigTech
'behind the sleek facade of our digital world lies a hidden workforce that bears immense emotional burdens, so we don’t have to. Their experiences raise urgent questions about the ethical implications of data work and the human cost of maintaining our digital infrastructure.'
https://www.noemamag.com/the-human-cost-of-our-ai-driven-future/
Longread, do take your time!
Don't miss the next Data Workers' Inquiry online panel, next Monday, Sept. 30 ‼️ @milamiceli will speak with anonymous data workers on making a career in #DataWork in Germany, moderated by Laurenz Sachenbacher.
Data Workers' Inquiry Speaker Series, Panel 5: What training do data workers need? What do they get instead?
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/videos/watch/89d65e07-2987-4941-8813-c29827cd5002
#AnalogPrivilege #AI #DataWork: "There are many ways to reduce and perhaps even eradicate analog privilege. A right to be an exception can grant manual overrides based on merit instead of social or economic status. Since analog privilege and automated precarity are two sides of the same coin, protecting people against some detrimental AI systems correspondingly reduces analog privilege. To that end, the EU AI Act’s ban on unacceptably high-risk systems is directionally sound. But high-level AI laws alone won’t cut it: the technical community is also crucial to improving intelligibility so people subject to AI systems can actually understand and contest decisions.
Ultimately, looking at analog privilege and the detrimental effects of AI systems side by side fosters a better understanding of AI’s social impacts. Zooming out from AI harms and contrasting them with corresponding analog privileges makes legible a subtle permutation of longstanding patterns of exceptionalism. More importantly, putting the spotlight on privilege provides a valuable opportunity to interrupt unearned advantages and replace them with equitable, reasoned approaches to determining who should be subject to or exempt from AI systems." https://www.techpolicy.press/the-future-is-analog-if-you-can-afford-it/?utm_source=petitfours&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petit-fours-400-on-analog-privilege-data-work-and
Next Monday, 5 pm (CET) 📢
Don't miss the chance to hear directly from data workers in Latin America about the realities they're facing every day. #datawork #AI
Next week, we’re launching 📢 The Data Workers' Inquiry Project. 15 data workers from Venezuela, Syria, Germany, and Kenya discuss their experiences with #datawork in ground-breaking reports, podcasts, documentaries, zines, and more!
📌 Sign up for the launchmon 8 July: https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/data-workers-inquiry-launch/
@milamiceli
Yo folks, wanna work with us on a #DiPLab project? It’s headed by @ptubaro, and is called VOLI. We're hiring a postdoc to study data work on microtasking platforms, using quali/quanti methods.
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR9194-PAOTUB-002/Default.aspx?lang=EN
NB: Fluency in 🇬🇧 + either 🇧🇷 or 🇩🇪 is a must. 🇫🇷 & 🇪🇸 optional.
Please🔄
#job #postdoc #paris #cnrs #sociology #digitallabor #artificialintelligence #academia #datawork #microwork #cnrs
Dans ce podcast de l'Atelier des Médias - @RFI, je vous raconte nos enquêtes #DiPLab à Madagascar, où des travailleurs entraînent l'IA via des plateformes accessibles depuis des cybercafés, des chambres à coucher, des maisons particulières, des entreprises… https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/atelier-des-m%C3%A9dias/20240622-%C3%A0-madagascar-des-petites-mains-entra%C3%AEnent-les-intelligences-artificielles #ia #datawork #madagascar #crowdwork #platform #france #globalization #Microwork
@ericholscher some days I feel that there should be a good history piece on their history and variations of concept, labeling and implementation.
Although having said that I guess I haven't looked for one for quite a while.
My awareness began with "crosstab" queries in the first version of Access. Then later with Cognos cubes (a la Transformer & PowerPlay).
As I didn't use Excel much I didn't know of its pivot support until it had been there quite a while.
#DataWork
