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How Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook can help to overcome the Corona unemployment crisis and make a better and fair world with AI
The bigger problem we face with the Coronavirus economical impact
The global number of people who lost their jobs in the last month is staggering. Stories of people buying guns to defend themselves from the chaos of millions of people hungry and desperate are accumulating at a frightening rate. Some believe that more people will die from hunger or related crimes than from the actual virus in the coming months. Governments across the world are struggling to find funds to support massive unemployment. Is there no way out?
How can the world benefit from having so many people at home?
Some people can work from home as part of their job as knowledge workers, and many products such as Zoom, Slack, or Microsoft Teams are doubling their usage to support the WFH (working from home) remote environments. However, there is also a massive opportunity to work from home, even if you were an Uber driver, a teacher, or an engineer that can’t go to work for a few months now. The world needs datasets to train Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, and many companies are willing to pay to create these…
