Human-in-the-loop
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Cadie Desbiens-Desmeules (Image identification), 2021. Technique: Javascript.
“Human-in-the-loop” is part of “I’m not a robot”, a series of applications exploring the murky world of digital labour and human intelligence tasks. A captcha seems like a harmless annoyance to a user, but it’s a powerful and lucrative method of extracting free labour as we’ve collectively been training AI for free by solving Google’s reCAPTCHA puzzles for decades. To date, it’s estimated that Google has extracted $7.3 billion worth of free labour using this method. Machine learning is nothing on its own: it requires millions of hours of human work to train an algorithm before its “intelligence” is realized. For AI to identify something as a car, it first needs humans to identify thousands of car images. The humans behind this process are known as “crowdworkers” performing “microtasks” or “microwork”. Half of these online platform workers are earning less than $2 per hour, yet these micro actions have huge benefits for tech companies.
https://desbiens-desmeules.com/im-not-a-robot/
Credits:
Programming Michael Gary Dean
