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Descriptive Camera: A camera that prints a description, not an image

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Re: Descriptive Camera: A camera that prints a description, not an image

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Post by anandkulkarni »

ghshephard wrote: post #6
mbesto wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Medical analysis I don't think I would rely on a description from a Mechanical Turk human for describing what they see in a pictue. Is that a tibia or a fibula?!?

Right - you don't send to Mechanical Turk. You instead send it to a highly trained backend workforce, presumably highly skilled in the vertical that you are doing analysis on. And, it's not just a picture, but video/sound/other sensing. Who knows what the next advances in remote telemetry will be.

Indeed, we do this kind of work today in MobileWorks, using exactly this fact.

Once your workforce is skilled all kinds of new opportunities of this nature open up.

Re: Descriptive Camera: A camera that prints a description, not an image

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Post by ghshephard »

anandkulkarni wrote: post #11
ghshephard wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right - you don't send to Mechanical Turk. You instead send it to a highly trained backend workforce, presumably highly skilled in the vertical that you are doing analysis on. And, it's not just a picture, but video/sound/other sensing. Who knows what the next advances in remote telemetry will be.

Indeed, we do this kind of work today in MobileWorks, using exactly this fact. Once your workforce is skilled all kinds of new opportunities of this nature open up.

Nice. I guess we don't need to look too far to see that soon-to-be-billion dollar company then. Have you considered doing real-time feedback to a device that has remote telemetry (video/sound/pictures/etc...)?

Re: Descriptive Camera: A camera that prints a description, not an image

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Post by anandkulkarni »

ghshephard wrote: post #12
anandkulkarni wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, we do this kind of work today in MobileWorks, using exactly this fact. Once your workforce is skilled all kinds of new opportunities of this nature open up.

Nice. I guess we don't need to look too far to see that soon-to-be-billion dollar company then. Have you considered doing real-time feedback to a device that has remote telemetry (video/sound/pictures/etc...)?

We've done some work in this vein already, as a matter of fact: real-time communication between the crowd and cameras / robots. We're currently supporting a few fast camera-driven smartphone applications that developers have built on the platform.

I think what you're after, though, is more comprehensive integration: a remote telemetry system that has crowd intelligence baked into its circuits along several media, rather than one: analyzing simultaneous audio and video. I don't think this would be difficult for a developer to build, and it's a great idea.

Re: Descriptive Camera: A camera that prints a description, not an image

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Post by drostie »

scraplab wrote: post #10
drostie wrote: post #9

It is a cute idea but unfortunately (or fortunately?) this particular implementation of the camera comes with (a) opinions, (b) typos, and (c) probably trolls, if they know that their text will automatically be accepted and printed out. I guess these factors could probably be reduced with more money? I don't mean paying more for the job: I mean using the API to ask a second human to verify the results of the first hu…

I think you're missing the point of it.

Am I? Would the point somehow be served if you took a self-portrait and the response back was "haha ur so ugly"...?

(I should add that I know that Amazon offers a review process, but I am not sure how it integrates with the above camera, and I am thus assuming that the camera automatically has to accept a description as correct before printing it out. This might not be the case; and I don't know.)

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