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Is microtask the future of work?

2 pointsby davidayover 14 years ago

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wccrawfordover 14 years ago
No. It should be pretty obvious that this doesn't work for most 'work' and only works for repetitive things that just use the things that the human brain can do in seconds that might be impossible on a computer. OCR, while not impossible, is much more error-prone with computers than humans when dealing with hand-writing, for instance.<p>And there's certainly no way this 'microtask' is going to do janitorial work.<p>The applications of this are fairly limited, and calling it 'the future of work' is ridiculous.