Obviously this has some glaring flaws on the surface level, but I'm just sitting here wondering which lucky so called "third world" country gets the first contract to virtually drive American streets for a dollar an hour. Oops, internet lagged a bit, and your uber driver just drove into the delta, sorry bud.
This also can potentially skirt an immense amount of labor laws, and since big tech looooooves to "disrupt" things I have zero faith in its safety. https://www.fastcompany.com/90653650/halo-driverless-car-sharing-service
Most of Amazon and Googles data is literally done in a mechanical turk way. If it can't figure out what you said, it sends the audio to a human getting 25¢ per task to transcribe it and train the algorithm.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. I actually did some of the 'OK, Google' stuff on mturk back in the day when they were first building their datasets.