• DandomRude@lemmy.world
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    57 minutes ago

    Indeed, a case for Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a service that is shamelessly and deliberately named after its historical model. The principle has not changed after all this time: poorly paid people do the work to make it look as if machines could perform the task - as if it were an unprecedented technological breakthrough, as if it were some kind of magic.

    It is a very popular thing among all the companies that claim that “artificial intelligence” was the future.

    Edit: However, this does not appear to be a demonstration of autonomous technology.

    Edit edit: Apparently, this was actually intended as a demonstration of autonomous technology - any source other than Reddit would be more credible.

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      47 minutes ago

      I thought Mturk was primarily used for labeling data for ML models, i.e., “here’s data. Look at it and give it a label according to our specifications”. Do they have a component of Mturk for piloting devices?

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        8 minutes ago

        I can’t answer that competently, but I can well imagine it, because there is demand for it.

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      They’ve already demonstrated time and again that these robots only exist so the rich can have slaves without actually having to see or interact with the slaves. They even had their robot strength nerfed so that there could be no uprising.