Nataliya Kosmyna
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Podcast Appearances
And the problem, right, it's again, back how they are used because there's also a lot of manipulation that is in these tools, right?
It's not just we are making this drive easier for you.
Somehow when I'm going to a hospital, I'm here to see patients because I don't only...
understand how we use other lamps but i do a lot of other you know projects so when i'm going to that hospital here massachusetts general takes me one hour always one hour in uber if i'm driving it takes exactly 25 minutes somehow right and again the question is why is it that right we're not gonna go in uber right now but again this is back to the idea of the algorithms
and what the algorithms are being actually pushed and what they're optimized for.
And I can tell you, not a lot of them optimized for us or for user or for human first.
You didn't know about Dredge Road.
Yes, you do know about Dredge Road.
So, well, first of all, right, we felt that we, of course, well, we are not experts.
I would not be able to rank those essays right in this topic.
So I felt that the most important is to get experts here who actually understand the task, understand what goes into the task and understand the students and the challenges of the time.
So we actually got the two teachers who had not English teachers before.
Nothing to do with us, never met in person, not in Boston whatsoever, have no idea about the protocols.
The experiment was long done and gone after we recruited and hired them.
And we gave them just a minimum of information.
We told them, here are the essays.
We didn't tell them about different groups or anything of the sorts.
We told them, these folks, no one is majoring in any type of literature or anything that would be relevant to language or journalism or things like that.
They only had 20 minutes.