Notices by Casilli :mastodon: (casilli@mamot.fr)

Despite the hype, past research found no clear link between AI adoption and long-term productivity gains. Now a new report from confirms it: no solid evidence that AI drives short-term productivity growth either. https://dais.ca/reports/waiting-for-takeoff/

As of 2021, Spain became the first European country to require delivery platforms to classify their workers as employees. Many of them failed to comply, including glovo and Uber eats. On the eve of a criminal trial, Glovo’s CEO announced today that the company will officially recognize over 15,000 riders as employees.https://elpais.com/economia/2024-12-02/glovo-anuncia-que-abandona-su-modelo-de-falsos-autonomos-un-dia-antes-de-que-su-fundador-declare-en-un-proceso-penal.html

❓During the negotiations for the AI Act, how many times were the data workers training AI invited at the European Parliament? Zero.

With MEP @leilachaibi & @milamiceli, on Nov 21, we'll be welcoming workers from 🇨🇴🇮🇹🇪🇸🇸🇾🇺🇸.
Join us live or via livestream. https://www.casilli.fr/2024/11/16/ai-workers-go-to-brussels-paving-the-way-for-an-unprecedented-dialogue-with-the-european-parliament/

Another very good, very early review of my upcoming book “Waiting for Robots. The Hired Hands of Automation” (University of Chicago Press): “Artificial intelligence, according to its advocates, holds out the promise of an end to mind-numbing, exploitative work. Casilli […] vehemently disagrees. He argues that it has merely changed the type of labor and the structure of the exploitation, and he has a mountain of research to support his case…”

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/antonio-casilli/waiting-for-robots/

Hier, j'ai assisté à cette scène à Paris. Je ne sais pas ce qui a mené à la garde à vue de cette phryge, mais ça doit être une allégorie politique de la France post-trêve olympique…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #JO2024

My advice to young folks: don’t believe people (usually techbros) claiming you don't need to attend a university for four years to learn anything valuable. They either did go to a university, thus they are hypocrites, or didn’t, thus they don’t know what they are talking about.

Yo le comité interministériel sur l'IA générative! Je crois qu'il y a quelques coquilles dans le rapport rendu aujourd'hui au Président de notre France Souveraine™. Au chapitre "Comment se décompose la chaîne de valeur économique de l'IA générative?", vous affirmez qu'"au milieu de cette chaîne de valeur, se trouvent bien sûr LES CRÉATEURS de modèles de fondation". Où sont passés les travailleurs du clic nécessaires à produire l'IA?
Bon, j'ai au moins corrigée la fig. 3, p. 22.
De rien.

🚨🥳🇪🇺Great news: after over two years of negotiations, in a last-minute twist worthy of a movie, EU adopts platform work directive.

The milestone was achieved at the March 11, 2024 meeting of the labour ministers, where Estonia & Greece moved past their previous abstentions to vote in favor. Done in "a spirit of compromise", this showcases EU's commitment to progressive labor policies.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/gig-economy/news/at-long-last-eu-countries-adopt-the-platform-work-directive/

The R&D team: “Our model heralds the advent of AGI!”

The marketing team: "Our product understands language!"

The IT department: "There was a bug because it's just a chatbot picking words at random."

Si ces deux-là sont ce que l'humanité a de mieux, l'IA pourrait bien avoir une chance de gagner.

Est-ce que vous avez "critiqué le gouvernement ou le premier ministre" sur vos médias sociaux ? En Grande-Bretagne, 15 ministères surveillent votre activité et compilent des dossiers secrets pour vous empêcher de prendre la parole lors d'événements publics. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/18/shocking-scale-of-uk-governments-secret-files-on-critics-revealed