This is a download from BBC Learning English.
To find out more, visit our website.
The English we speak from bbclearningenglish.com hello and welcome to the English We Speak.
With me, Fei Fei and me, Neil.
Neil, can you stop playing around on that computer and concentrate?
In this program we have a new word connected to the worlds of technology and work.
It's used to describe a kind of worker who provides an essential service for the smooth running of all things web.
A microworker.
A microworker?
Isn't that someone who makes microwave ovens?
No, Neil, though it does have the same prefix, micro.
Ah, yes.
And the word micro used as a prefix indicates that something is small.
But we're not talking about small workers.
We're talking about small digital tasks that computers can't do on their own.
Neil, stop typing.
Sorry.
These might be things like drawing
around a digital image of a face to help train artificial intelligence systems to recognize people.
That's right.