dreamdancer 0 #1 May 8, 2010 no minimum wage here... QuoteIF YOU'VE ever joked about your boss being a robot, stop laughing, they soon could be. A web service has launched that allows software algorithms to automatically recruit, hire and pay workers to do a wide variety of tasks. "For the last 60 years, humans have controlled software - now we're getting to the stage where software can control humans," says Matt Barrie of Australian website Freelancer.com. The website normally provides a forum for companies wanting to outsource their work. Now it has been upgraded so that developers can write software to post job adverts on the site, take on respondents and pay them for the results without human input. For example, a program written for a store with a large inventory could automatically recruit salespeople to sell its products and send more work the way of people that do the best job. Because the software is doing the commissioning and assessing the results, it avoids the need for a company to hire other people to rate the work that was done. Barrie says there are enough programmers on the site's books for it to be possible to write software that can even improve itself, by recruiting people to improve its own code. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627595.300-become-a-wage-slave-to-software.htmlstay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
