Inside Amazon's clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI

"Every company that has an interest in automating a service has access to or uses some sort of platform like Amazon Mechanical Turk. According to Mary Gray, senior researcher at Microsoft, the firm's UHRS is "very similar" to Amazon Mechanical Turk. Microsoft's Bishop said that in the near-future, AI systems will likely be trained using a mix of human-led, supervised learning and unsupervised learning. A common technique for teaching AI systems to perform these tricky tasks is by training them using a very large number of labeled examples. And there are many other forums, subReddits, and organizing platforms online, as well. "Every company that has an interest in automating a service has access to or uses some sort of platform like Amazon Mechanical Turk.