上周,《华尔街日报》一篇关于 Gmail 邮件被第三方厂商随意查看的报道却意外揭开了科技行业另一个谜团:当下所谓各家公司所标榜的「人工智能」,其核心竞争力不是机器,而是人

当然,这句话的理解方式有很多,比如,你当然可以认为,过去几年人工智能领域所掀起的「抢博士」热潮,人工智能的竞争,也是人才竞争;而与之相对的则是另一个事实,在这个看似高大上以及被媒体热议要时刻替代人类的行业,更需要愿意重复劳动的廉价劳动力。看下面这段叙述:

……Return Path assigned two data analysts to spend several days reading 8,000 emails and manually labeling each one, the person says. The data helped train the company’s computers to better distinguish between personal and commercial emails.

Return Path declined to comment on details of the incident, but said it sometimes lets employees see emails when fixing problems with its algorithms……