Nov 13, 2017

Humans are required to make AI work

Erica Pandey

South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol plays against a computer. Photo: Lee Jin-man / AP

Artificial intelligence is so limited, yet such a lucrative buzzword, that companies are selling the work of hundreds of thousands of people as AI, writes the WSJ's Christopher Mims.

Why it matters: Humans have long feared AI as a jobs killer but AI's reliance on human brainpower suggests that new technology could be a boom, not a bust, for jobs.

The numbers:

While AI can automatically act on 83% of inappropriate content on YouTube, the remaining 17% needs human eyes, Mims writes.
Facebook recently announced it will double its content moderation team to 20,000 employees.
But the largest workforce of humans working in conjunction in AI is in China — where the government alone employs 100,000 censors.
If Facebook operated in China, it would need 20,000 moderators to review video content alone, a Chinese internet executive told the Journal.

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