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Crowds against the Machine: will digital workers soon be digitized?
November 18, 2010… The fact is that there may never be a time when A.I. meets all of our peculiar demands. The vast cloud of crowdsourced labor can react, almost instantly, to a mind-boggling variety of tasks – from rating the emotional impact of an image, to decoding a 300 year old sentence of text. New applications and companies are constantly popping up – from real time mapping aids for the blind to the latest crowd funding initiatives (see The Daily Crowdsource if you want to try and keep pace – …
ai, convnets, crowd, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, distributed work, driverless, google, machine, robot, self-driven cars, widesourcing | 1 CommentWe, Robot: A Vision of What’s to Come
December 18, 2009 Share
When I was growing up and spending too much time watching cartoons, I met George Jetson, and Jane (his wife) . When I got to know Rosie, the Jetson’s robot maid (whom they loved and would never replace or upgrade) I became very hopeful for a future free of household chores.
Alas, at the time of writing, I am still without a robotic aide. Although the use of …
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