Tech that: Your next boss could be a computer!
LONDON: The first fully automatic computer
system that can delegate tasks to human workers has been developed by a
US-based scientist. Daniel Barowy, a computer scientist at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst has created 'AutoMan' that
delegates tricky problems to human workers through crowd-sourcing
platforms such as Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
"I'd rather have a computer as my boss than a jerk," says Barowy.
Artificial intelligence is improving all the time, but computers still struggle to complete certain tasks that are easy for us, such as quickly reading a car's license plate or translating a joke, the New Scientist reported. To get round this, people can post such tasks on platforms like Mechanical Turk for others to complete. Barowy wanted to automate this process — and 'Auto-Man' was born.
"We think of it as a new kind of computing. It changes the kind of things you can do," he said. Auto-Man was designed to send out jobs, manage workers, accept or reject work and make payments. The quality guarantee is the most important contribution of the work, says Barowy. "You're replacing people's bosses with a computer. Without a mechanism for addressing the quality of worker output, full automation is not possible," he said.
"I'd rather have a computer as my boss than a jerk," says Barowy.
Artificial intelligence is improving all the time, but computers still struggle to complete certain tasks that are easy for us, such as quickly reading a car's license plate or translating a joke, the New Scientist reported. To get round this, people can post such tasks on platforms like Mechanical Turk for others to complete. Barowy wanted to automate this process — and 'Auto-Man' was born.
"We think of it as a new kind of computing. It changes the kind of things you can do," he said. Auto-Man was designed to send out jobs, manage workers, accept or reject work and make payments. The quality guarantee is the most important contribution of the work, says Barowy. "You're replacing people's bosses with a computer. Without a mechanism for addressing the quality of worker output, full automation is not possible," he said.
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