The army of contractor-linguists who power Google Assistant say they had their wages stolen Boing Boing

The reason Google Assistant (that’s the product you invoke when you say “OK Google” to your device) works reasonably well is that the Pygmalion team — a small army of linguists — work long hours handcrafting variations on common phrases (“set a timer for five minutes,” “remind me in five minutes,” “in five minutes, remind me…”) and grammars that allow the system to correctly respond to your queries. These linguists (who have to have at…

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