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1 .SH tgtimes |
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2 The Modern Mechanical Turk |
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3 .2C 34v |
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5 .PP |
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6 In 1770, long before the exploitation of electricity, a machine was built in the pretention of being able to play Chess. |
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7 This machine named Mechanical Turk was nothing more than a moving puppet actuated by a small human, such as a child. |
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8 A child who is good at chess, that is! |
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10 .PP |
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11 Actuating levers, the operator would make the puppet move, fooling the audience that technical advances occasionally make use of black magic. |
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12 . |
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13 .PP |
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14 Amazon called a software platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. |
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15 .FS |
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16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk |
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17 .FE |
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18 It offers management for harvesting food for machine learning: human description of images, videos, products, and other kind of canned thoughts that machine learning can make use of to build models. |
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20 .PP |
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21 Uber for Cyber. |
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22 Human translators shouting at machines the language they got whispered through their life. |
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24 .IP "Ghostworker. Noun." |
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25 1. Worker performing activity that will only be appreciated as data feeding an algorhithm. |
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26 2. Worker with no access to who it provide work to, both employer and client are invisible to him. |
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27 .FS |
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28 https://www.ghostwork.org/ |
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29 .FE |
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30 . |
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31 .PP |
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32 given the very large scale at which these data-harvesting structures are deployed, it means that you, web user, have experienced the Google and Cloudflare "captcha" block window. |
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33 That window preventing you to submit a form unless you click on all buses, tracktors, crosswalks, traffic lights... to verify that you are indeed a human and not a bot trying to access the website. |
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34 Instead of prooving its belonging to the mankind, at the opposite, the user is explaining to machines what is a bus, a tracktor, a crosswalk, or a traffic light. |
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35 . |
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36 .PP |
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37 Here is your Great Technological Singularity for the greatest common entertainment: |
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38 Nothing more than a moving puppet, actuated by humans, barely even paid for it, if paid at all... |
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39 .FS |
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40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk |
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41 .FE |
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