December 20, 2016 - IMDB Top 10 Indian Movies of 2016: Pink tops the list followed by Airlift and Dear Zindagi

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Invite Friends Blog Sree Vijaykumar From the Editor's Desk Is there a real-world Skynet, designed to enslave humans with menial labour? Amazon's Mechanical Turk (and similar efforts by Microsoft and others) let companies break jobs into smaller tasks and offer them to people across the globe. A common technique for teaching AI systems to perform tasks is by training them using a very large number of labeled examples. These machine learning systems are fed huge amounts of data, annotated to highlight the features of interest. These examples might be photos labeled to indicate whether they contain a dog or written sentences that have footnotes to indicate whether the word "bass" relates to music or a fish. This process of teaching a machine by example is called supervised learning and the role of labeling these examples is commonly carried out by Turkers and other online workers. Even Facebook had a human news team teach an algorithm for its Trending News section. The entire team was fired once the algorithm was deemed ready (quite mistakenly as proven by the 'fake news' problem). The big question is if Amazon (and others) are democratizing work or exploiting the disempowered? More in this piece. Advertisers of the day The Economist: Subscribe now and get a Hidesign passport wallet free Ingram Micro Cloud: Streamline your creative process and secure your digital assets with Dropbox Business   Our advertisers help fund the daily operations of TradeBriefs. We request you to accept our promotional emails (B2B Decision-Makers, B2C Decision-Makers, TradeBriefs Premium).   Entertainment IMDB Top 10 Indian Movies of 2016: Pink tops the list followed by Airlift and Dear Zindagi Pink starring Amitabh Bachchan has been voted the best film by IMBD. Going by the list, one can see that the audience has given preference to content-oriented stories over films with higher box office collections. 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