Well, that is definitely a step in the right direction. What processes are in place to ensure that people are actually doing the work well? That's a big problem with Mechanical Turk.
They used to have such a wonderful culture there. I would think that a large part of their problems is the fact this is no longer existent. I found this great quote from Bill Hewlett on HP's site:
"We knew what technology was available," Bill said, "and we figured out how little bits of it would fit within the area where we wanted to be. There was not one giant step that we took at any point; there were a lot of little steps. Pretty much we just stuck to our knitting. I think we were concerned about making a technical contribution and we operated on the assumption that if we made a contribution to society, rewards would follow."
Can you imagine any exec at HP saying something along those lines today?
Hmm, maybe so. I wonder if some of the newer Python implementations like PyPy or Jython would make that simpler. I know that one of PyPy's vaunted features is a webkit bridge, though that github repo is currently showing a 404.
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Well, that is definitely a step in the right direction. What processes are in place to ensure that people are actually doing the work well? That's a big problem with Mechanical Turk.
Can you imagine any exec at HP saying something along those lines today?
Hmm, maybe so. I wonder if some of the newer Python implementations like PyPy or Jython would make that simpler. I know that one of PyPy's vaunted features is a webkit bridge, though that github repo is currently showing a 404.