Robot assigns tasks to humans

People have been accused of robbing people of their jobs. Now, scientists have revolutionized the creation of a robot software tasked with humans.

(Photo: cs.umn.edu) Robot named Suggestbot, by Dan Cosley and colleagues at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, manufacturing. The program can help online communities like Wikipedia and Slashdot edit and assign tasks. Organizations like this often rely on members to edit and add content. But when the job is up, it will be very difficult for users to choose the right job.

Suggestbot will connect tasks with individual interests . It will filter through thousands of Wikipedia listings to find what you need to do and compare it against the list of previously edited articles in your user profile, finding similarities. To find out if the program has increased productivity, Cosley has studied the work of 91 Wikipedia editors on a total of 3094 tasks. He tested three versions of the Suggestbot algorithm.

The results show that after the task was assigned two weeks, 3.4-4.3% of them were done, compared with only 1% of jobs were done when the user selected at random. Cosley believes that combining all three algorithms will add even more results.

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