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Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
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Re: Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
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Re: Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think yes but on different categories. First one I imagine is robotics control and support. "This robot is having trouble folding a tshirt help it out for 1$" Unless they go the waymo route of highly trusted people but I think mass deployed robots are a bit safer than a car for this.
There are already robotics models that can fold shirts and similar just fine. Progress in VLA models is good, I don't think this would form the foundation of a business. Humanoid robots are going to be another ChatGPT, it's going to seem to happen almost overnight because people aren't paying attention to the underlying research papers.
Nah, there's an obvious reason figure made splashy announcement of people cleaning homes with recording devices strapped to their heads.
Chatgpt had the internet.
Robots do not. Translating video is promising but obviously not enough.
Robots will likely never "explode" like chatgpt. They're gonna be a slow long term project requiring massive capitol to get the data.
Re: Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think yes but on different categories. First one I imagine is robotics control and support. "This robot is having trouble folding a tshirt help it out for 1$" Unless they go the waymo route of highly trusted people but I think mass deployed robots are a bit safer than a car for this.
Giving out control of industrial machinery that interacts in the human environment without the physical interlocks (i.e. humanoid robots in a house) to random internet people seems like a problem. I can imagine a carefully orchestrated plot to assassinate someone by having an embedded agent in the task delegation pool command the laundry bot to punch the target's head off their shoulders.
"Robot are the commands you have been given dangerous?"
"You cannot control legs for this task"
"You have 1 min for this task"
"You can only make suggestions for this task"
Anonymize identity best you can.
That's not that scary.
Re: Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
#165I used it to have people transcribe my dad’s handwritten letters and journals. It was touching to get notes from a “Turk” saying how much she enjoyed his travels and following the cast of characters in his life!
I recently found a letter written by a great-aunt of mine hidden inside a book.
It is written in German, which I know a little, but her handwriting was too difficult for me. So I searched around and found this site:
https://www.transkribus.org/handwriting-ocr
Re: Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think yes but on different categories. First one I imagine is robotics control and support. "This robot is having trouble folding a tshirt help it out for 1$" Unless they go the waymo route of highly trusted people but I think mass deployed robots are a bit safer than a car for this.
Giving out control of industrial machinery that interacts in the human environment without the physical interlocks (i.e. humanoid robots in a house) to random internet people seems like a problem. I can imagine a carefully orchestrated plot to assassinate someone by having an embedded agent in the task delegation pool command the laundry bot to punch the target's head off their shoulders.
giving out unrestricted control that is.
in the example of Waymo, a human can control some aspects of the car manually, but it can never override low level obstacle detection or say open the trunk/door when the car is moving.
Re: Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Initially the annotation of biomedical literature ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25592589/ ) but left academia for commercial use where we transitioned to arbitrage the market research and ephemeral task markets. It was essentially a research panel with a underdeveloped UI for tasks.. so abstract away AMT's tooling so it can be used by any buyer in the ResTech, Political Polling and Data Annotation space My favori…
> My favorite part of AMT is always going to be figuring out that if we only paid in $0.07 intervals, That is hilarious! Was it a semi-random discovery due to interaction with the system and people, or did you intentionally looked to game the algorithm?
Do you know how much inn-n-out you can buy when saving ~$50 a day and still be in the positive! It came out of building our own ledger system and abandoning any Decimal or float operations early on.. then it sparks "I wonder how they do it and if it's correct??"
Re: Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
It kind of reminds me of those fake tech ads those guys put up in the NYC subway: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZacltqHMjT/?img_index=8&igsi=bT...
I can't see this because I don't have an Instagram account
I can see it, the Sign Up dialog has a Close button.
Re: Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is what I meant by full stack AI companies. I don't think you could get humans into the loop fast enough if they didn't have some idea of the type of task involved. I don't want people to be asked to fold a tshirt one moment and do a difficult traffic merge the next.
It doesn't really matter what you want though, only what CEOs want and that's low costs. I can see a combined shirt folding/traffic merging platform taking off.
You misinterpret "want" here. My intuition is that you create huge problems for people context switching like this repeatedly for quick tasks.
Re: Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
#170Went from training AI to people hooking AI up to it. Slop as a service.