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Published · transcript-backedBalaji Srinivasan: belief
25 Apr 2018 Conversations with Tyler Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain
“I think there’s going to be a lot of those folks who work in what I call the new digital blue-collar jobs, which are Mechanical Turk–type jobs.”
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- Balaji Srinivasan
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- 25 Apr 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…What do we Americans in the tech world least understand about Nigeria? It’s English-speaking. It has a very large number of people. There’s now starting to be some software stuff coming out of there, like Andela. I think there’s going to be a lot of those folks who work in what I call the new digital blue-collar jobs, which are Mechanical Turk–type jobs. We’re doing some of that with Earn.com, where you have labeling of images: is this a cat, this a dog, or determining if there are two clusters or one cluster in an image. That’s what I think of as the new digital blue collar, like worldwide machine learning–type stuff. You’re going to have a lot of those from Nigeria, Brazil, India, places like that. How do we do a worldwide talent search for the really smart kids? Is that a problem that can be solved by tech, or is it more about local mentoring and coaching?…
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