Indian workers are earning $3/hour teaching robots how to do their jobs.
Workers wear head-mounted cameras and motion-tracking sensors while performing activities such as washing dishes, cutting mangoes, folding clothes, and handling textile work. The recordings are used to teach robots how humans move and interact with objects.
The data is being collected by Objectways, whose clients reportedly include Fortune 500 companies. Some workers record up to 90 clips per day, with each clip lasting around four minutes.
A subcontractor, Qanat Consulting Services, manages roughly 2,000 workers who wear tracking bands on their limbs to capture movement data. According to CEO Ravi Shankar, some jobs need to be automated so people can focus on more useful work.
In reality this means more people would become jobless. Just because nobody really can describe what millions of people who will lose their simple jobs due automation will do. What these “more useful work” jobs are? This is not likely to be coding or copyrighting as these jobs are automated already. And what they would do and while they would pay bills while learning to do a new jobs, while they learning this mystical “more useful work”?
When billions of people will become jobless or poor due lower salaries, they will be possible to buy less of anything. Economy would keep shrinking and collapse into zero.
This will be total catastrophe.
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