[sschueller]

I wonder how many task on Mechanical Turk can actually be automated. By that I don't mean building some fancy AI but tasks that can easily be automated and have just been posted on Mechanical Turk.

[H8crilA]

Much of what's happening in such markets is collecting data to build ML systems.

[kuu]

I guess automating is not always the cheapest option, and for "once in a life" experiment/test/dataset it can be sometimes cheaper to hire people than develop an algorithm.

I guess XKCD said it before: https://xkcd.com/974/

[taneq]

XKCD gave me a 503 "Backend unavailable" and I thought it was some advanced meta-joke for a second.