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Re:Human in A.I. Loop by noonespecial on Saturday September 10, 2016 @09:41AM (#12469143)
"What we need to build is a gamified quick truther thingy that all our 200 employees in main office can log in during their lunch break and rate a few items."

Lunch break? Or you could just, I don't know... go with me here, I know it sounds crazy at first..., pay them for providing this value to your company.

Re:Human in A.I. Loop by zo1 on Saturday September 10, 2016 @01:41PM (#12470196)
You're already paying them. Simply tell them to do this during any downtime they might have. Obviously don't encroach on their lunch/home time, though.
Re:Human in A.I. Loop by nxzero on Saturday September 10, 2016 @10:17AM (#12469308)
Or, strange concept, the employees benefit from their efforts to improve the company, and idea of working during lunch on a trival task makes sense if they don't have anything else worth doing.
Re:Human in A.I. Loop by noonespecial on Saturday September 10, 2016 @10:51AM (#12469489)
>the employees benefit from their efforts to improve the company

The traditional benefit for this activity is known as a "pay check".

Be wary of someone who tells you that changing the world should be its own reward when it looks like they'll be keeping the money.

Re:Human in A.I. Loop by y4mi on Saturday September 10, 2016 @10:36AM (#12469421)
its no longer a break if you're still working.
Re:Human in A.I. Loop by MaulingMonkey on Saturday September 10, 2016 @11:36AM (#12469648)
And the break is worth doing. Do you want your highly paid managers, engineers, salespeople, etc. properly recuperating? To better tackle the nontrivial tasks you pay the big bucks to tackle?

Or do you want really really expensive mechanical turks?