Inside Amazon's clickworker platform
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Inside Amazon's clickworker platform
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Re: Inside Amazon's clickworker platform
#2It'll be interesting to watch AI start edging out these jobs. What an interesting general AI project. Instead of a Turk, there will be a machine inside..
Re: Inside Amazon's clickworker platform
#3It'll be interesting to watch AI start edging out these jobs. What an interesting general AI project. Instead of a Turk, there will be a machine inside..
That's almost certainly Amazon's endgame.
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#4It's a global platform for cheap human labor. I find it completely unsurprising that living off cheap labor alone would not result in a particularly good living standard, especially not in some of the most expensive locations in the world, and especially not when competing with cheap labor from across the globe.
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#5It'll be interesting to watch AI start edging out these jobs. What an interesting general AI project. Instead of a Turk, there will be a machine inside..
Would their new slogan be Artificial Artificial Artificial intelligence?
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#6It'll be interesting to watch AI start edging out these jobs. What an interesting general AI project. Instead of a Turk, there will be a machine inside..
That would be weird. Some of the tasks on there now are for labeling training data for AIs ...
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#7Shit job or no job. That is a question. And probably one should not ask Amazon for answer.
Re: Inside Amazon's clickworker platform
#8It'll be interesting to watch AI start edging out these jobs. What an interesting general AI project. Instead of a Turk, there will be a machine inside..
No you misunderstand, this is horizontally scalable humanity. This is how you bootstrap training models.
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#9Amazon could bundle Turk with it's other AI efforts to automatically train AIs alongside Turk problems to eventually take over the task or only farm it out when the model's confidence is outside a particular threshold.
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#10It's a global platform for cheap human labor. I find it completely unsurprising that living off cheap labor alone would not result in a particularly good living standard, especially not in some of the most expensive locations in the world, and especially not when competing with cheap labor from across the globe.
I'm always torn when I see stories like this. On one hand I feel for someone making less than minimum wage doing a job, but on the other I realize that these people are competing with people who come from places without a minimum wage at all.
The same thing happens on freelancer sites. Jobs for pennies on the dollar of their worth are fought over by people barely making it in the US, and people who are enjoying a rather livable stream of income in other countries.
To me the answer is to tell yourself that it's not work but a hobby that happens to pay, and at least seek out work that pays minimum wage in your area, if that applies.
But easier said than done I'm sure.