Artificial Artificial Intelligence

Well, as promised, here's my next post on artificial artificial intelligence. Now those of you who read my previous post on artificial intelligence might remember that artificial intelligence fails in certain cases wherein there is human intervention needed. This is a big problem in automating stuff.
There are certain things that computers can do better than human beings while there are some other things that humans can do better than computers. The example of former is sorting/searching/copying text etc. while the example of latter are finding out a person from a group photo, or typing out the lyrics of the song that is currently being played on a website. So the tasks can be classified into two types based on whether human beings can do it better. So "artificial artificial intelligence" can connect programs needing the human touch with humans. For example if a program needs to identify whether the song sung by two people is the same song or not, or if a program wants to check out of two photographs of a person, which one is more beautiful, the program can outsource it to humans who can then provide the decision to the program.

This has uses in many fields, for example a computer can tell you an address of a restaurant, but you would still need a human being to tell you if the restaurant is good enough to go with your special guests or not. The idea of Artificial Artificial Intelligence is to outsource those parts of a computer program to humans. Amazon has come up with a program called Amazon Mechanical Turk. How it works - small chunks of work are given out to people over the internet. You complete that work (called as HITS -  human intelligence tasks) and submit it, Amazon will pay you and collect what it paid to you along with its commission from the person who requested for this task. You can yourself check it out on https://www.mturk.com/.

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