Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Amazon's Mechanical Turk is searching for missing adventurer Steve Fossett.

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Amazon Mechanical Turk - MTurk Earn Money Solve Different Task by working on hits.Amazon Introduce "Amazon Mechanical Turk".Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate "Artificial Artificial Intelligence" directly into their processing by making requests of humans. The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is one of the suite of Amazon Web Services, a crowd sourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do. Developers use the Amazon Mechanical Turk web service to submit tasks to the Amazon Mechanical Turk web site, approve completed tasks, and incorporate the answers ... Read Full Story
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Earn Money Solve Different Task by working on hits. Amazon Introduce " Amazon Mechanical Turk ". Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate "Artificial Artificial Intelligence" directly into their processing by making requests of humans. The Amazon Mechanical Turk ( MTurk ) is one of the suite of Amazon Web Services, a crowd sourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do. Developers use the Amazon Mechanical Turk web service to submit tasks to the Amazon Mechanical Turk web site, approve completed tasks, and incorporate the ... Read Full Story
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The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is one of the suite of Amazon Web Services, a crowdsourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do. Read Full Story
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A penny can go a long way on the Internet. Aaron Koblin makes that point and questions the ethics of cheap online labor with tenthousandcents.com art that he jokingly refers to as "the world's largest distributed forgery project." Koblin diced a US 100 dollar bill into ten thousand itty-bitty pieces and used Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to contract an equal number of people to hand draw recreations of individual bits. He paid each of them a cent for the work and didn't reveal the bigger picture. Koblin put the drawn pieces together. "It looks pretty much like a 100-dollar bill," Koblin said. "But if ... Read Full Story
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MTurk.com "The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is one of the suites of Amazon Web Services, a crowdsourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do. Requesters, the human beings that write these programs, are able to pose tasks known as HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks), such as choosing the best among several photographs of a storefront, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs. Workers (called Providers in Mechanical Turk's Terms of Service) can then browse among existing tasks and complete them for a monetary payment set by the Requester. To ... Read Full Story
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The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is one of the suite of Amazon Web Services, a crowdsourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do.

Requesters, the human beings that write these programs, are able to pose tasks known as HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks), such as choosing the best among several photographs of a storefront, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs.

Workers (called Providers in Mechanical Turk's Terms of Service) can then browse among existing tasks and complete them for a monetary payment set by the Requester. To place HITs, the requesting programs use an open Application Programming Interface, or the somewhat limited Mturk Requester site.

Requesters can ask that Workers fulfill Qualifications before engaging a task, and they can set up a test in order to verify the Qualification. They can also accept or reject the result sent by the Worker, which reflects on the Worker's reputation. Currently, a Requester has to have a U.S. address, but Workers can be anywhere in the world.

Payments for completing tasks can be redeemed on Amazon.com via gift certificate or be later transferred to a Worker's U.S. bank account. Requesters, which are typically corporations, pay 10 percent of the price of successfully competed HITs (or more for extremely cheap HITs) to Amazon.

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New frontiers in human research subjects: PARC researcher Markus Jacobsson describes how to find anonymous research subjects via Amazon's "Mechanical Turk" service. Mechanical Turk is a virtual marketplace that pays people to perform tasks that software can't easily automate. People earn a few pennies for each minute of tasks like "Summarize a website in one sentence" or "Find a travel-related online video" (two examples that happen to be...  
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