I want to know who is paying $0.01 USD to get someone to manually transrcibe a reciept to a table.
It seems the Mechanical Turk ecconomy could be dwindling due to the accessiblity of AI these days.
It seems the Mechanical Turk ecconomy could be dwindling due to the accessiblity of AI these days.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/expen...
>“Most people’s first mistake is they go on there and accept any task they see,” says Naab. “They’ll do these transcriptions — $0.01 to transcribe a whole receipt for Expensify. That’s a terrible ROI.”
But on the other hand if you have access to a computer a poor country, 1 cent might not be worth your time anyway.
We do language related things on MTurk (crowdsourced translation, for example). It's very easy to spot those who have used something like google translate or other artificial means - it's quite rare for a sentence to be translated exactly the same way twice, for starters.