{"id":298,"date":"2019-11-07T02:13:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T02:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/?p=298"},"modified":"2019-11-08T03:18:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T03:18:06","slug":"reflection-6-11-07-viral-pasad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/2019\/11\/07\/reflection-6-11-07-viral-pasad\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection #6 \u2013 [11\/07] \u2013 Viral Pasad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michael S. Bernstein, Greg Little, Robert C. Miller, Bj\u00f6rn Hartmann, Mark S. Ackerman, David R. Karger, David Crowell, and Katrina Panovich. 2015. Soylent: a word processor with a crowd inside.\u00a0<\/strong>Commun. ACM<\/strong><\/em>\u00a058, 8 (July 2015), 85-94. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/2791285<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Next week’s reading is on Soylent”, I tell my roommate, who often consumes Soylent as one of his ‘grad meals’. “Guess who else has a Soylent when he misses breakfast? – My advisor, Dr. Sang Won Lee!” I tell him.
“Ooh! Let me know about the article once you’ve read it then!” My roommate says, now invested.
I was disappointed to read this paper and find that it is not about the beverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernstein et al, have christened their crowdsourced word processor, ‘Soylent’. Their work has three parts, namely – shortn, crowdproof,<\/em> and the human macro<\/em>. Shortn<\/em> is shorthand for summarization of text articles (80-90% of their original size) using the labor of crowd workers. Crowdproof<\/em> is crowd-aided autocorrect\/spellcheck with an accuracy of 67%. Human macro denotes the custom requests made to their crowd, sourced from Amazon Mechanical Turk. Soylent uses Fix-Find-Verify to edit a given document to perfection. Find identifies the phrases that need fixing, followed by the fix to correct them, followed by verification to determine whether the correction is valid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An issue the authors mention for systems like soylent is the matter of legal ownership. This made me zone out to ‘Authorship in Art’<\/a> article by Aaron Hertzmann on if a computer can ever be an artist. That is an entirely different ballgame, but in this case I believe, that the authorship still belongs to the actual authors who did the creation of the document\/manuscript. I might acknowledge the VT Writing Center in my research paper, but not make them a co-author for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, a worthy feature of just AI capability in augmenting and suggesting text that I find worth mentioning is the autosuggest feature showing up in Google’s Productivity Suite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is insane how they are able to read my draft and suggest a subject line for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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