Amazon Mechanical Turk is a website that allows companies to post jobs for online workers. These workers perform tasks by computer at home and receive a payment for completing each task. The payment ...

Shamik Ghosh had been picking up tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk for several months when he logged on in winter 2010 and saw a perplexing request: Someone wanted him to act out a series of Winter ...

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It used to be that humans told computers what to do. But with the launch of Amazon.com's newest service, called Amazon Mechanical Turk, a computer program will be able to ask humans to perform tasks ...

Joan wears her hair in a loose bun skewered by shiny black chopsticks to keep it out of her eyes while she’s working. She’s been living in Houston since 2011, when she returned to care for her 81-year ...

Amazon just raised the costs of using Mechanical Turk — its platform to let users crowd source "human intelligence tasks" to people all around the world — and researchers aren't happy, the Wall Street ...

The use cases for MTurk are almost endless. Here's how to prepare your tasks and your workers for success Russell Smith is cofounder and CTO of Rainforest QA. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, is a ...

A personality quiz on Amazon's Mechanical Turk received multiple complaints in 2014, but the quiz-makers continued to use the platform for at least another year. For one month, I became the ...

The promise of the gig economy—that it would empower workers to be their own bosses, liberate them from tyrannical office culture, and let creative types chase their dreams while maintaining a side ...

“The Turk” was a famous hoax perpetrated in 1769 by Wolfgang von Kempelen. According to the Wikipedia article on “The Turk” the hoax consisted of a “maplewood cabinet 4 feet long by 2 feet deep and 3 ...