Amazon Patents Humans Assisting Computers

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 3, 2007 @11:54AM from the mechanical-turk dept.

theodp writes "Amazon's latest patent, the Hybrid Machine/Human Computing Arrangement, reads like scary sci-fi, with claims covering the use of humans 'of college educated, at most high school educated, at most elementary school educated, and not formally educated' to perform subtasks dispatched by a computer. From the patent: 'For examples, the task on hand requires French speaking humans, and Task Server has requested that each subtask be performed by at least 10 humans with a past accuracy record of at least 90%.' Yikes."

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Re:I for one... by smittyoneeach · 2007-04-03 12:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

1) keyboard
2) connection to /.
3) timing
4) ...
5) profit!!!

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Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Re:I for one... by UltraAyla · 2007-04-03 13:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

the computers told him to do it