8. The Golden Years of AI (1956-1974)
1965, H.A. Simon: “machines will be capable,
within 20 years,
of doing any work a man can do.”
1970, Minsky: “In from 3-8 years we will have
a machine with the general intelligence
of an average human being.”
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19. Crowd-Labor
applications
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20. Common applications
Data entry
Categorization
Content generation
...
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21. Case study: Data entry
Workplace safety company
courtesy of CloudFactory
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22. In-house approach
Costly training, high
Complicated,
turnover
undocumented business
process
Can’t scale to meet
Unreliable results
demand
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23. Crowd-Labor approach
Virtual assembly line Small microtasks with no
Multiple eyes per task training required
Reliable results Scales to meet demand
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36. “We noticed that
demand for a hotel increases if the reviews on
TripAdvisor and Travelocity are well-written, without
spelling errors;
this holds no matter if the review is positive or
negative.”
Source: Panos Ipeirotis
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49. the Crowd-Labor stack we want
vs.
the Crowd-Labor stack we
have
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50. the Cloud-computing stack we
Application Abundant
Platform Robust
Infrastructure Unreliable hardware
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51. the Crowd-Labor stack we want
Application Abundant
Platform Robust
Infrastructure Unreliable workers
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52. the Crowd-Labor stack we have
Commoditized Enterprise
Few Application Some
Immature Platform Not generic
Unreliable Infrastructure Unreliable
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53. Crowd-Labor applications in
Application Chirpsy,
CastingWords,
uTest, Senti,
Platform Expensify, etc.
Infrastructure
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