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Critique of Mechanical Turk Interface
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40:35 - 45:22 (04:46)

The Mechanical Turk interface is poorly designed, with an excess of clicking and a lack of intuitive segmentation, which makes the experience of using it tedious and frustrating.

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The success of Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) greatly depends on having large amounts of high-quality annotated data.
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ASR
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The success of Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) greatly depends on having large amounts of high-quality annotated data. Rev, whose business model involves annotating data, aims to achieve a 3% error rate and is confident in their ability to do so with their access to the best data for training ASR models.

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Critique of Mechanical Turk Interface
Episode
#151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans
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Lex Fridman Podcast
The use of recurrent neural nets in drawing polygons has been explored in a few experimental papers, attempting to learn from human clicking and fixing of polygons.
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Recurrent Neural Nets
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The use of recurrent neural nets in drawing polygons has been explored in a few experimental papers, attempting to learn from human clicking and fixing of polygons.

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Critique of Mechanical Turk Interface
Episode
#151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Mechanical Turk interface is difficult to use and AWS has done a poor job with it.
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Mechanical Turk
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The Mechanical Turk interface is difficult to use and AWS has done a poor job with it. However, despite this, the future of online workforce platforms is exciting.

Chapter
Critique of Mechanical Turk Interface
Episode
#151 – Dan Kokotov: Speech Recognition with AI and Humans
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast