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Amazon Patents Humans Assisting Computers

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. Re:Insert disk... by camperdave · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Paging the operator to mount a tape goes way farther back than that.

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  2. In Soviet Russia.. by pak9rabid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In Soviet Russia, computers use YOU!