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Re:Giving money directly to poor people (2013) by ralphc on Saturday April 21, 2018 @04:02AM (#16890459)
When I read this my first thought was how easy it would be to replace the Mechanical Turk team with a neural network trained to distinguish between thatch and tin roofs.
Re:Giving money directly to poor people (2013) by opportune on Saturday April 21, 2018 @06:16AM (#16890813)
What? Those kinds of tasks on mechanical turk are precisely to gather data to train those kinds of neural networks
Re:Giving money directly to poor people (2013) by GoatOfAplomb on Saturday April 21, 2018 @04:21AM (#16890491)
This is article is from 2013; neural networks weren't as ubiquitous. I wonder if they've gone in that direction since then.