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March 7, 2006
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LF Cabrera Artificial Artificial Intelligence
Amazon uses lots of software…but can’t use software to write item descriptions, for example.
Amazon mechanical turk
Web services API for computers to integrate artificial artificial intelligence directly into their processing by making requests to humans
Had at one point 43,000 humans working on projects at once.
Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs)
Means
- for software developers: solves problem of building software that requires human intelligence
- For workers: Revenue stream
Uses
- high quality, inexpensive, massive scale image clean up (“which picture is better?”)
- quick, inexpensive answers (market polling and research – or “should I shave my beard?”)
- high quality, inexpensive translation and transcription (castingwords.com)
Posted by egoodman at March 7, 2006 10:24 AM
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