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Big Tech Is Faking AI (www.youtube.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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A new report has shown that Amazon's "Just Walk Out" AI checkout process is actually processed by 1,000 staff in India.Tech companies are under pressure to d...

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[–] Zrybew 63 points 8 months ago (9 children)

It's not faking, it's Mechanical Turk.

Reduce workforce to an API https://www.mturk.com

[–] micka190 40 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Man, I know people love to throw the word "dystopian" around, but holy shit is that description dystopian as fuck.

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it easier for individuals and businesses to outsource their processes and jobs to a distributed workforce who can perform these tasks virtually. This could include anything from conducting simple data validation and research to more subjective tasks like survey participation, content moderation, and more. MTurk enables companies to harness the collective intelligence, skills, and insights from a global workforce to streamline business processes, augment data collection and analysis, and accelerate machine learning development.

[–] mrnarwall 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I used to do mechanical turk jobs for some quick and easy pocket money. There were several types of tasks you could do, and there was a sort of ranking system to dissuade anyone from just inputting junk instead of answering seriously. I usually stuck to surveys and things I would describe as fancy captchas. I recall a few jobs where the task was to record yourself in different environments reading the same script of text. I can't see that type of job for being anything other than training data for AI/ML

[–] afraid_of_zombies 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

reading the same script of text

Audio testing? I was involved with a thing like that at one point. For a major telecom. Just a whole room of people of different accents reading the first page of the Great Gatsby and recording.

[–] mrnarwall 2 points 8 months ago

I was never told exactly what it was for. My suspicion was that it seemed more like acquiring training data for an audio processing machine learning library. This was about 10 years ago, so after the likes of siri, but way before something like chat gpt

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