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It'll be interesting to watch AI start edging out these jobs. What an interesting general AI project. Instead of a Turk, there will be a machine inside..

joncp 10y ago
That's almost certainly Amazon's endgame.
simonbw 10y ago
Would their new slogan be Artificial Artificial Artificial intelligence?
RandomInteger4 10y ago
That would be weird. Some of the tasks on there now are for labeling training data for AIs ...
duaneb 10y ago
No you misunderstand, this is horizontally scalable humanity. This is how you bootstrap training models.
avaid1996 10y ago
Don't know if this would really happen much, unless we are saturated with labelled datasets. They are used for labelling and not directly responsible for the actual end classficiation which is what AI is aiming to solve. In fact, AI needs labelling to work on these classficiations
- visarga 10y ago
  classfic[i]ations /Just a human doing a spellbot's job.
  - sharmi 10y ago
    class[i]fic[i]ations /Just another human doing a human's job doing a spellbot's job Makes you wonder about the quality of the job done on MechanicalTurk. Redoing supposedly done work is my worst nightmare.
    - visarga 10y ago
      Haha this is priceless. :-) Thanks
Asooka 10y ago
Might be worth it if you have a super smart AI that is very slow to use its predictions to train a very fast highly specialised neural net. Also, the whole thing makes me think of the original plot of The Matrix - the one where humans are used as co-processors rather than very inefficient organic batteries. The Wachowskis stated that at the time they thought people wouldn't understand the former, so they went with the latter. Today I can absolutely picture farms of people born in pods living in virtual reality where everyone has the equivalent of an AMT job and nobody finds it weird that you're paid to solve made-up problems because duh, everyone does that. Maybe at first 80% of people would work in some sort of management job so the machines can learn how to manage people and then gradually displace them.

joncp 10y ago

That's almost certainly Amazon's endgame.

simonbw 10y ago

Would their new slogan be Artificial Artificial Artificial intelligence?

RandomInteger4 10y ago

That would be weird. Some of the tasks on there now are for labeling training data for AIs ...

duaneb 10y ago

No you misunderstand, this is horizontally scalable humanity. This is how you bootstrap training models.

avaid1996 10y ago

Don't know if this would really happen much, unless we are saturated with labelled datasets. They are used for labelling and not directly responsible for the actual end classficiation which is what AI is aiming to solve. In fact, AI needs labelling to work on these classficiations

visarga 10y ago
classfic[i]ations /Just a human doing a spellbot's job.
- sharmi 10y ago
  class[i]fic[i]ations /Just another human doing a human's job doing a spellbot's job Makes you wonder about the quality of the job done on MechanicalTurk. Redoing supposedly done work is my worst nightmare.
  - visarga 10y ago
    Haha this is priceless. :-) Thanks

Asooka 10y ago

Might be worth it if you have a super smart AI that is very slow to use its predictions to train a very fast highly specialised neural net. Also, the whole thing makes me think of the original plot of The Matrix - the one where humans are used as co-processors rather than very inefficient organic batteries. The Wachowskis stated that at the time they thought people wouldn't understand the former, so they went with the latter. Today I can absolutely picture farms of people born in pods living in virtual reality where everyone has the equivalent of an AMT job and nobody finds it weird that you're paid to solve made-up problems because duh, everyone does that. Maybe at first 80% of people would work in some sort of management job so the machines can learn how to manage people and then gradually displace them.