February 2012
2 posts
““The risk is that someone getting paid for just a few hours of work...”
– Startups Drive Crowdsourcing - WSJ, 2/28/2012
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Accuracy and Fraud on mTurk (Case Study)
Background
Humanoid uses proprietary quality assurance and cost optimization technology to provide scalable, high-quality crowdsourced labor and outsourcing services to businesses. The company first built SpeakerText, a successful video transcription service built atop Amazon Mechanical Turk, then repurposed the core workforce management technology to do tasks beyond transcription. The result...
January 2012
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“Revenues of business-focused crowdsourcing firms grew 74% between 2010 and 2011,...”
– “Big Firms Try Crowdsourcing,” 1/17/12, WSJ
December 2011
3 posts
“As we move into an increasingly digital reality, we must learn not just how to...”
– Douglas Rushkoff, http://snip.it/s/12jt
Our CTO, Matt Swanson
Matthew Swanson had a passion for both artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship. Now just two years out of school, the Carnegie Mellon alum’s startup, SpeakerText, has spawned Humanoid, a revolutionary new venture with backing from Google Ventures. “I’m fascinated with modeling the human brain,” said Swanson, who earned his masters at CMU’s Robotics...
"Return of the Human Computers," The Economist
“Over the past few years, human computing has been reborn. The new generation of human computers carry out different tasks, but they mirror their predecessors in many other ways. They are being drafted in to perform tasks that computers cannot. They are employed in large numbers and are organised into streamlined workflows. And, as was the case in the age before electronic computers, their...
November 2011
5 posts
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”We launched SpeakerText, and it took us about a year and a half to get actual quality results from Mechanical Turk,” Mireles told VentureBeat. The problem, Mireles said, is that it was extremely difficult to ensure the quality of an anonymous, distributed workforce. For every dollar the team spent on labor on Mechanical Turk, it had to spend two dollars on quality assurance and cleanup. Everyone...
“Software can now be truly intelligent. Think about that.”
Humanoid is alive!
SAN FRANCISCO –– Humanoid launches the first human brainpower API that actually works. The Internet service, built by a team of Carnegie Mellon robotics researchers, offers computer programmers a reliable way to put human intelligence into software applications.
Humanoid offers a drag-and-drop interface that allows engineers to create tasks and send instructions to humans. Proprietary...
“Hello world”