The Role of Human Computation in a Changing Technology Landscape: Expert Weigh In

Chris Welty from Alphabet, Kumar Chellapilla from Amazon, Besmira Nushi from Microsoft, Markus Krause from Brainworks, Olga Megorskaya from Toloka, and Lora Aroyo from Google Research shared their views. Chris explains that human computation usually takes two forms -- explicit and implicit. Implicit refers to situations when data labeling is a by-product, for example when we stream movies, listen to music on YouTube, or do web searches. The system's algorithm learns about its users even though no data labeling as such takes place. On the other hand, more "traditional" forms of data labeling like crowdsourcing are explicit.