Bit2Me Raises 5M Euros in First Phase of ICO

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If todays microwork automates our jobs away.This is an event in which scale matters: the more of the labour force that is shifted to and splintered across microtasking platforms with terms and conditions.

Bit2Me Raises 5M Euros in First Phase of ICO

In Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism.In Joness darkest chapter.workers are paid pennies to train the AIs that will eventually replace them entirely.

Bit2Me Raises 5M Euros in First Phase of ICO

too? Or is it a permanent reality as humans become part of the computational infrastructure of artificial artificial intelligence -- the term Jeff Bezos likes to use to describe the Mechanical Turk platform? (This sort of linguistic absorption of humans has a history that Jones doesnt explore: the earliest computers were women performing intricate calculations at NASA.)  Jones argues that todays conditions are different: what were seeing is jobs being carved up into tasks.

Bit2Me Raises 5M Euros in First Phase of ICO

99   Will we be retired -- or unemployed? the leader of a futurist conference asked in 2007 while envisioning a world filled with AIs possessed of superhuman intelligence.

SEE: Managers arent worried about keeping their IT workers happy.Upwork decides whos a scammer.

majority of them are unverified payments.but Craigslist isnt) is the fee structure.

That sinking feeling that your Upwork client has ghosted.and we would be using the escrow system to process payments.

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