CYBER: The Invisible Workforce that Makes AI Possible
AI Isn’t Artificial or Intelligent, it’s powered by underpaid workers in foreign countries. Continue reading CYBER: The Invisible Workforce that Makes AI Possible
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Playment gives companies on-demand workers to analyze data using mobile devices
Pretty much every company, to some extent, has to power their algorithms with data and machine learning if they’re going to be competitive with anyone else in their space. The challenge there, though, is that not everyone can have the massive computational power and data of a company like Google — especially not startups. Siddharth Mall and his co-founders started Playment in… Read More Continue reading Playment gives companies on-demand workers to analyze data using mobile devices
With a $1.5M seed round, Eloquent Labs mixes AI and Mechanical Turk to fix customer service
Keenon Werling would be the first to agree that conversational AI is regularly overhyped. So instead of taking the traditional approach and gloating about a glitzy new deeper learning algorithm to pitch his new venture Eloquent Labs, Werling instead opted to differentiate by optimizing something far more low-tech, people. The startup’s special sauce is embracing a mix of AI,… Read More Continue reading With a $1.5M seed round, Eloquent Labs mixes AI and Mechanical Turk to fix customer service
Retrotechtacular: Social Hacking is Nothing New
If you watch enough mainstream TV and movies, you might think that hacking into someone’s account requires a huge monitor, special software, and intricate hand gestures. The reality is way more boring. Because people tend to choose bad passwords, if you have time, you can task a computer with quietly brute-forcing the password. Then again, not everyone has a bad password and many systems will enforce a timeout after failed attempts or require two-factor authentication, so the brute force approach isn’t what it used to be.
Turns out the easiest way to get someone’s password is to ask them for …read more
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Fifty Percent of Mechanical Turk Workers Have College Degrees, Study Finds
A new study finds Mechanical Turk workers are overeducated and underpaid. Continue reading Fifty Percent of Mechanical Turk Workers Have College Degrees, Study Finds
Your Smartphone Is Being Secretly Accessed—By Your Friends and Family
31 percent of respondents in a survey snooped in the past year. Continue reading Your Smartphone Is Being Secretly Accessed—By Your Friends and Family