what exactly is involved in training an AI?
I'm also curious about this. Can anyone describe what tasks a mechanical turk worker would be requested to do?
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#12what exactly is involved in training an AI?
Tagging the data for training, and also doing data clean up so the network is not trained on some complete garbage.
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#13Remind me, what level of the fictive universe are we in today?
There's pretty much 0% chance that life isn't some simulation
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#14I have farmed out work to Turks and tried to "go native" as a Turk and found I couldn't find HITs I could bear to do. It used to be there were a lot of HITs that involved OCRing receipts but these were not receipts that were straightforward to OCR, they were receipts that failed the happy pass and that I thought there was no way I could transcribe them accurately in a reasonable amount of time considering what it pai…
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#16I have farmed out work to Turks and tried to "go native" as a Turk and found I couldn't find HITs I could bear to do. It used to be there were a lot of HITs that involved OCRing receipts but these were not receipts that were straightforward to OCR, they were receipts that failed the happy pass and that I thought there was no way I could transcribe them accurately in a reasonable amount of time considering what it pai…
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I thought turk referred to 'Amazon Mechanical Turk'
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#17I have farmed out work to Turks and tried to "go native" as a Turk and found I couldn't find HITs I could bear to do. It used to be there were a lot of HITs that involved OCRing receipts but these were not receipts that were straightforward to OCR, they were receipts that failed the happy pass and that I thought there was no way I could transcribe them accurately in a reasonable amount of time considering what it pai…
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I'm pretty sure he's referring to https://www.mturk.com/worker, the name of which is itself a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
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#18Have you ever tried to sign up for one of those "turk" gigs? Like MechanicalTurk, MicroWorkers, etc? It's just horrible. This was about to happen.
If you want actual people to label stuff, make them a contract.
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#19I have farmed out work to Turks and tried to "go native" as a Turk and found I couldn't find HITs I could bear to do. It used to be there were a lot of HITs that involved OCRing receipts but these were not receipts that were straightforward to OCR, they were receipts that failed the happy pass and that I thought there was no way I could transcribe them accurately in a reasonable amount of time considering what it pai…
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#20I have farmed out work to Turks and tried to "go native" as a Turk and found I couldn't find HITs I could bear to do. It used to be there were a lot of HITs that involved OCRing receipts but these were not receipts that were straightforward to OCR, they were receipts that failed the happy pass and that I thought there was no way I could transcribe them accurately in a reasonable amount of time considering what it pai…
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