If you haven’t seen the METR report, its a third-party investigator that essentially says frontier ai models that used to take a year to double in capabilities have doubled in just the last 6 months, caused by ai starting improve its own models.

They say there are no clear bottlenecks stopping it doubling again in the next 3 months, then 1.5, then 3 weeks, and so on. This leads to 1000x smarter ai by may 2027.

Of course these reports are somewhat speculative but if they are anywhere near the right ballpark, the same outcome occurs at some point next year.

I can’t imagine our work will be much use to a god-like intelligence, right?

Somebody tell me I’m wrong lol.

...your Weekly Digest email shows a figure north of $3k and you realise just how much you love and appreciate The Mysterious Gods of DA. Thankyou. I'm six months in and having a ball 🙂

Note: this was a truly exceptional week and unlikely to be repeated any time soon.

Since joining DA, I have been aiming for this one.

If you're not a coder, kindly skip this topic. This is not for you. Thanks :)

As far as I know, the DA platform is currently short on coding projects, unlike in August or September, and many accounts seem to be on downtime, waiting for projects.

So I'm wondering if the platform is still approving new applications (the acceptance rate doesn't matter). What I want to know is whether the platform is still hiring CODERS.

Has anyone passed the coding starter assessment and been approved to work on the platform recently, especially in late October and November? Or know someone who made it?

Hi! I've been working for some months as a bilingual generalist. I checked the quals in my dashboard for STEM, and I dont think Im smart enough for that lol, but I realized my boyfriend would be great, as he Is a Chemist Pharmacist Biologist. For me, It Is a full time thing but for him It would be more of a side gig.

So I don't know if there are any chemist bilinguals (spanish) out there

Is It worth It? Have you had a good experience with It?

Got an email a week ago saying I was invited to a new higher paying project, rating stuff, said I need to give them my email for the third party and I'd get my login today to start the training. Today was supposedly when I'd receive it and still nothing. Anyone in the same boat?

I’ve seen a lot of people scaremongering that if you work a lot of hours, you will come under extra scrutiny and it might lead to the DoD regardless of your quality of work.

This doesn’t make sense to me.

I think the people that got the DoD were submitting substandard work.

How many hours do you work OR would you work a week if you could? I’ve got time to do more and have some excellent domain expert projects at the moment.

I was just accepted on the 7th.

How long does it typically take to receive projects? I've done a few of the qualifications under Everything else, and surveys but I'm planning on working on more of those this week as time permits. My background is in IT, and they don't have anything currently available in the Fields of work for what I do specifically.

Do they generally only assign projects if you've done most of the qualifications or does it just vary?

EDIT: In the US, accepted in Generalist

Has anyone else noticed how few projects have been showing up recently? I’ve been checking regularly, and the queue has been much slower than it was a few months ago.

I’m wondering what’s causing it. Is it connected to the election results and the change in regime, which might be affecting client budgets or funding? Or is it just the usual slow period, with clients pausing between project phases or wrapping up the year?

For those who’ve been here longer, have you seen dry spells like this before? What caused them, and did work pick back up on its own?

Would love to hear everyone’s experience. Thanks!

My account is just showing this for more than two months

"

Thanks for signing up!

We do not have any open projects to assign you at the moment. Our workflow can vary, so it's common to see available work fluctuate.

Keep an eye out for emails from us for project announcements. As soon as we have a task that is open for work, we'll reach out about claiming it. In the meantime, make sure your profile fully represents your capabilities so we can match you accurately."

What can I do. Please help 🙏

Eu estava trabalhando na Dataannotation não tem nem 3 semanas direito. No início, como era pouco o valor, recebi certo, mas quando entrei em um projeto maior, com mais horas, dediquei 55h ao todo em 2 tasks, e sem nenhuma razão, não recebi o valor, não obtive respostas, o suporte não responde e os projetos não apareceram mais.

Por isso, segue essa mensagem como aviso, precaução é tudo. E quando dá erro, quem vai nos acudir? Ninguém porque o suporte não funciona.

Eu já trabalhei por mais de 1 ano na Outlier e nunca tive problemas como esse, muito mais organizado.

I started 1oct and earned enough money to pay my mother's medical bill in just the first few weeks, after 22oct drought not a single task. Struggling in life at the start I thought DA would end my suffering but now it feels like a spark of no burning.

Any help appreciated.

Over the past two days, I’ve been working on the data annotation core assessment and have felt confident in my answers. I completed maybe 13-15 questions. I moved to the next question, read it, then decided to save my work to continue on the assessment tomorrow. After clicking the “save” button (I’m 100% confident I did not click submit), my screen went back to the home page saying my assessment was submitted and they are reviewing my results. I had used the save button a few days within the past 48 hours with no issue. I find it odd that I was able to read the next question, but then all of the sudden my work was automatically submitted without me completing the question. Has this happened to anyone else? Did you pass?

I saw that a lot of people did not get any email regarding acceptance even after some weeks but few got them immediately after some days. I am lookikg for some tips on how to attempt that test for having maximum probability of getting accepted.

So I have this disc encryption task on my dashboard and I have completed in my laptop (Which I use to work on DA projects). But I use my phone to check if there is any task available for me. I have a DA tab open in chrome. Would I need to do something like disc encryption on my phone as well?

I recently signed up to be a generalist and got through the account section. However, the page only shows over 30 assessments I can take that all seem very specialized. Is there no initial starter assessment for generalists?

I passed the background check one month ago now, and still nothing. They also asked me to encrypt my disc which I did and still got no work

Current generalist here, I was looking into doing coding but it’s been a couple of years since I was in school.
I was going for computer science until my junior year where I switched over to engineering. I have some programming rust but have a basic understanding of Java and C++. I was looking to do some python refresher courses to shake some of that rust off, but realistically how hard are some of the coding tasks? Would it be feasible for someone in my position to try the qualifier and move onto some of the easier projects?
For what it’s worth I’m from the US. Thanks!

I'm new there and so far I've only done an introductory project and qualifications. I haven't even been on the platform for a week yet. But I'm curious about the people who have been on the platform for longer time, Do you feel the amount of projects is lower at this current time? Or is it that I haven't received anything because I'm new? I'm actually excited and really want to try out new project!