# Professor Panos Ipeirotis shares how the tasks on Mechanical Turk have evolved due to artificial intelligence (AI)

1 Faculty News October 26, 2016 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from the [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/17518034-6f77-11e6-9ac1-1055824ca907) -- "'It used to be humans writing the caption for an image,' says Mr [Ipeirotis](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/panagiotis-ipeirotis). 'Now computers are writing the caption and humans are checking the caption.'"

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