Comments on: The world is flat, cheap, and bite-sized http://myownpirateradio.com/2005/11/18/the-world-is-flat-cheap-and-bite-sized/ Oshoma Momoh's personal blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:24:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: My Own Pirate Radio » What Can People Do That Computers Can’t? http://myownpirateradio.com/2005/11/18/the-world-is-flat-cheap-and-bite-sized/#comment-26 My Own Pirate Radio » What Can People Do That Computers Can’t? Tue, 09 May 2006 14:20:39 +0000 http://myownpirateradio.com/2005/11/18/the-world-is-flat-cheap-and-bite-sized/#comment-26 [...] Amazon launched Mechanical Turk late in 2005. It really got me thinking about what types of tasks are undigitizable, the interplay between collective intelligence and outsourcing, and related ethics and economics issues including worker conditions and incentives. It’s interesting to see concrete examples of people working in this area and exploring all these issues in great depth. For example, here is how Benjamin Hill approaches the space: BH: …We’ve started to think of the whole knowledge workspace as divided on one axis along people’s opinions all the way to things that are absolute. Like people’s opinions would be “tag the image”, absolute would be “OCR check this one line of text”. There’s one correct answer versus “it really matters what people thing” and then along another axis we’ve got everything from easy where it just takes a few seconds of time, all the way up to very difficult where it takes a longer amount of time. If you can imagine both Mycroft and CastingWords occupying different bubbled areas of that knowledge workspace, so actually we’re going after different targets and I think both have a lot of value at that point. [...] [...] Amazon launched Mechanical Turk late in 2005. It really got me thinking about what types of tasks are undigitizable, the interplay between collective intelligence and outsourcing, and related ethics and economics issues including worker conditions and incentives. It’s interesting to see concrete examples of people working in this area and exploring all these issues in great depth. For example, here is how Benjamin Hill approaches the space: BH: …We’ve started to think of the whole knowledge workspace as divided on one axis along people’s opinions all the way to things that are absolute. Like people’s opinions would be “tag the image”, absolute would be “OCR check this one line of text”. There’s one correct answer versus “it really matters what people thing” and then along another axis we’ve got everything from easy where it just takes a few seconds of time, all the way up to very difficult where it takes a longer amount of time. If you can imagine both Mycroft and CastingWords occupying different bubbled areas of that knowledge workspace, so actually we’re going after different targets and I think both have a lot of value at that point. [...]

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