Google Hired Micro Workers to Develop Its Project Heaven AI

According to reports, tech behemoth, Google has chosen a gig economy creator to develop an AI program for itself. It is believed that the company has paired with the Pentagon to develop the program. 

People were chosen from a crowd funding Gig Company known as Figure Eight. The Gig Company gives away $1 for people who successfully perform the given mindless tasks in the stipulated time. Google’s AI is created as a part of an initiative by the defence department. The name of the initiative is called as Project Maven.

The project is a part of the Pentagon. The main purpose of the project is to classify people and objects in a time span of thousands of hours through drone footages. The micro workers helped the company to successfully train the algorithms to make the AI work.

In June 2018, the tech behemoth planned to not renew its contract with the defence department because it involved the project and many of its employees signed a petition of the company’s involvement in it. The deal will end in March this year.

“You upload your data to our platform and we provide the annotations, judgments, and labels you need to create accurate ground truth for your models,” quoted by Figure Eight.

Figure Eight is a machine intelligence company that hire micro workers. The platform was earlier called the Crowdflower.

If the new development is successful then it will benefit Google and the rest of the world.