11/26 - Moolah Monday!

New York Times:

THE NEW NEW WORLD

How Cheap Labor Drives China’s A.I. Ambitions

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/25/business/china-artificial-intelligence-labeling.html

"
In China, long the world’s factory floor, a new generation of low-wage workers is assembling the foundations of the future. Start-ups in smaller, cheaper cities have sprung up to apply labels to China’s huge trove of images and surveillance footage. If China is the Saudi Arabia of data, as one expert says, these businesses are the refineries, turning raw data into the fuel that can power China’s A.I. ambitions.

Conventional wisdom says that China and the United States are competing for A.I. supremacy and that China has certain advantages. The Chinese government broadly supports A.I. companies, financially and politically. Chinese start-ups made up one third of the global computer vision market in 2017, surpassing the United States. Chinese academic papers are cited more often in research papers. In a key policy announcement last year, the China government said that it expected the country to become the world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030.

Most importantly, this thinking goes, the Chinese government and companies enjoy access to mountains of data, thanks to weak privacy laws and enforcement. Beyond what Facebook, Google and Amazon have amassed, Chinese internet companies can get more because people there so heavily use their mobile phones to shop, pay for meals and buy movie tickets.


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Like Mr. Yi, Ms. Hou doesn’t spend time thinking about the implications of her work. Are they contributing to a surveillance state and a dystopian future that machines will control human?

“Cameras make me feel safe,” she said. “We’re in control of the machines for now.”

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NerdLab Lab Group [ATMRMLDNGYDJT] Easy HIt- Bid on Youtube Videos(~ 10 minutes) - $1.00 $0.31 bonus | PANDA

Generous

Unrated

Unrated

$12.99 / hour
00:06:03 / completion time

Pros:
I received an immediate bonus which was twice as much as I thought it would be at least.

Cons:
The images in the first part didn't load in Firefox, but did in Chrome. Then the images in the second part were really slow to load which basically doubled my completion time.

Qualifications: Total approved HITs >= 50; HIT approval rate (%) >= 80; Exc: [-137299929-117084] DoesNotExist ; Location In US;

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BIU NLP [A3UENPLNM9AQBK] Are the facts in a text? - $0.50 | PANDA

Low

Unrated

Unrated

$6.57 / hour
00:04:34 / completion time

Pros:

Cons:

Qualifications: Location In AU, GB, US; Total approved HITs > 5000; HIT approval rate (%) >= 99;

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I thought it was an ear.

 

Some one join me for the Citizen Science Game

 

message them and they'll tell you to submit

this is likely their first multiplayer game and it botched bad.

 

"Actually sorry. I'm a student and this is a class project. The budget for the the study is over so I can't spend money from my pocket to pay you. Sorry."

 

@ChrisTurk - I can't review when returning. It just sits there and spins around forever. I'm logged into everything. I've refreshed and tried 3 times now

 

Kang JY [A2BYP0U18UX1QI] Ride-sharing service experiences Survey (ONLY for MALE) - $0.60 | PANDA

Low

Unrated

Unrated

$7.18 / hour
00:05:01 / completion time

Pros:

Cons:
Should be paid better

Qualifications: Total approved HITs > 1000; HIT approval rate (%) > 95; Location EqualTo US;

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Christophe Lembregts [A2505CQQJ5NDTB] Short task - $0.25 | PANDA

Fair

Unrated

Unrated

$7.83 / hour
00:01:55 / completion time

Pros:

Cons:

Qualifications: HIT approval rate (%) >= 85; Location EqualTo US;

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Darlene Oglesby [AP0SJ2AON22RS] Consumer Study - $0.50 | PANDA

Fair

Unrated

Unrated

$7.41 / hour
00:04:03 / completion time

Pros:

Cons:

Qualifications: Total approved HITs >= 500; HIT approval rate (%) >= 95; Location EqualTo US;

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@Buntastic had a similar reaction.

 

For now.....

 

Don't do it...

 

Thanks, can you close out & try again? Changing the way they work and typo'd the query lol