Rufus, an Amazon employee, using a device that’s very similar to our idea:
They essentially reproduced the classification test we reported on earlier:
Once he got going, Rufus was pretty good at identifying the bears in the picture, with an accuracy rate in excess of 80%. Admittedly, the task itself was of limited utility but that wasn’t the point.
Even more interesting, they report that Rufus enjoyed spending time with the program:
Rufus has yet to notice that we’ve recycled the [pictures] and he now spends an hour or so each day happily sorting out the bears from the non-bears.
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/04/is-this-a-bear.html
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