To this date we are unable to build a machine that can do the simplest human task: Converse.
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The work requestor specifies a workload as a package called a HIT (a Human Intelligence Task) that splits the overall workload across many workers, with specified goals, instructions and deadline.
This also relieves the human from this tedious task, leaving them to apply higher order professional analysis and insight.
Engineers can calculate the most efficient route for a spray-painting robot to take around a car body, work out how quickly parts must be supplied, look for bottlenecks or even tell if a human worker's task is likely to give him backache.
The shortcomings of Fed forecasting, in my opinion, are due more to the inherent impossibility of the task than to human failure.
Chess was never likely to be a good yardstick for measuring machine intelligence as its strictly formal nature, devoid of fuzziness and chance, is exactly the opposite of the kind of task where the human brain excels.
Whitehill and Venegas worked on a special task force devoted to human trafficking.
Whatever the specific task is we want to continually find ways of performing that task while using less human labour.
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Deciphering the first draft of the human genome has been a monumental task and was rated on Monday as being more important than the discovery of the wheel.
Twenty-seven-year-old U.S. Army Sergeant John McCary was serving in a HUMINT (Human Intelligence) Team attached to Task Force 1-34 Armor, 1st Infantry Division in the al-Anbar province of Iraq.
The search for life on Mars (past or present), which few would argue is scientifically useless, would be greatly enhanced by the skill and judgment that only a human expert could bring to the task.
"It enables the systems and a human to discuss a plan before a task - such as dismantling a nuclear plant - is undertaken, " said Dr Vasconcelos.
"You have to talk to the elderly in a kindly way, " she tells volunteers as she uses a human-sized model to demonstrate the task of putting a diaper on a grown-up.
Predictive tagging is particularly indicative of how automation and human comprehension must collaborate to efficiently complete the task of reviewing data.
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The reason for the success was the translation from a boring one-on-one task to a design appealing to human instincts of cooperation and competition.
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To teach Baxter a new job, a human guides its arms to simulate the desired task, and presses a button to program in the pattern.
We want to reduce the amount of human labour we have to use to perform any particular task, not increase it.
Of course I am labouring the point here to remind us that there has never been a time when mastering the sum of human knowledge has not been felt to be an impossible task.
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The signpost, just a few years old, was chipped at the edges to make it look as if it was something Davy Crockett may have used, and the names carved upon it encapsulated the heroic human endeavour necessary to chart the world before satellites made this task obsolete.
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Previously, a British citizen who felt that their rights under the Convention had been breached by a public body would have to face the lengthy and expensive task of pursuing their claim through the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg.
In addition, the U.S. Preventive Care Task Force, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, says there's not enough evidence to recommend for or against prostate cancer screening men younger than 75 and recommends against prostate screenings for men 75 or older.
This is precisely why CI has adopted a new mission to demonstrate that biodiversity and healthy ecosystems are essential to human well-being, and why we are taking on the task of demonstrating this in a series of core countries, large and small, highly degraded and still largely intact, with both high and low levels of capacity and political commitment to creating Healthy Sustainable Economies.
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However, such a task requires collaboration between the various stakeholders and authorities responsible for human resource development at all levels and in various sectors.
The challenge of the Anthropocene is to use human ingenuity to set things up so that the planet can accomplish its 21st-century task.
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