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People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI

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Re: People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI

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Perhaps we’re starting to see the limits of the machine learning era in AI. We may have nothing more to teach it. There are a number of ways to go from here, none of which is entirely within our control or understanding.

The industry needs to change the current acronym to HPML. Human Powered Machine Learning. The flaw is inherent in the approach. We are running out of things to offer it.

The next evolution needs to be HFML.

Re: People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI

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post #15

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Usually labeling text/images, answering simple questions, ranking or scoring.

How does one find this as side job? sounds like a therapeutic work once in a while :)

You probably won't find it relaxing in practice but here you go: https://www.mturk.com/worker

Re: People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI

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There is a long history of various kinds of "information inbreeding" in AI and data analysis: the tendency of some inexperienced researchers to overfit their regression models, using bootstrapping methods to expand small data samples, etc.

Nothing new here. Because of laziness human beings just love a Confirmation bias. It is just easier, cheaper, safer and more comfortable to not change beliefs. Without control, AI will reflect that.

Re: People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI

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Doesn't this play into the whole "Snake eating it's own tail" scenario..

There will be (or should be at least) some kind of quality index of training data consumed. Companies could wear it like a 'quality' badge. Just not sure how you would do it.

Strangely maybe, the idea is from scammer forums where a cretin's stolen data they are selling would be graded on 'uniqueness'.

Re: People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Usually labeling text/images, answering simple questions, ranking or scoring.

How does one find this as side job? sounds like a therapeutic work once in a while :)

Spoiler: You get paid roughly a penny per task.

Re: People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI

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post #25

Perhaps we’re starting to see the limits of the machine learning era in AI. We may have nothing more to teach it. There are a number of ways to go from here, none of which is entirely within our control or understanding.

>We may have nothing more to teach it.

There are countless books that haven't been digitized.

Re: People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI

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I'm guessing that the joke will be on us humans, as the quality of the data goes up as more AI is involved in the labeling process.

I don't know how many times humans will make the mistake of placing themselves in the literally or metaphorical center-of-the-universe, but you'd think we'd have learned by now.

Re: People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI

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post #34

Doesn't this play into the whole "Snake eating it's own tail" scenario.. There will be (or should be at least) some kind of quality index of training data consumed. Companies could wear it like a 'quality' badge. Just not sure how you would do it. Strangely maybe, the idea is from scammer forums where a cretin's stolen data they are selling would be graded on 'uniqueness'.

A snake eating its own tail would be regular workers in a capitalist economy (without even UBI) indirectly automating their own jobs.

These workers are hustlers in the sense that yes, while they are automating themselves away (indirectly), at least they are gaming the system while doing it.

Re: People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI

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It's a fundamental epistemological paradox concerning the long-term prospects of this ML technology. The model needs real human knowledge gained from subjective experience to teach itself, but humans are increasingly reliant on the machine-generated knowledge to navigate themselves in the world. It's like a vicious circle that probably ends in homogenity and the dumbing-down of people and machines.
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