Blogs about: Mechanical Turk

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Artificial artificial intelligence and anti-spam7 comments

Mike Speiser wrote 1 week ago: I’m sick and tired of spam and even more ticked off about false positives.  Machine learning … more »

Tags: Ideas!, a plan for spam, AAI, Amazon, Anti Spam, Artificial Artificial Intelligence, bayesian, "Jeff Bezos", Machine learning

Silly Questions

jnachod wrote 1 month ago: Amazon Mechanical Turk is a way to waste small amounts of free time on the Internet doing research a … more »

Tags: Amazon, mturk, Questions, Research, Hypothesis, Humor

Find out if you're trustworthy

socialcapital wrote 2 months ago: A new website called Facestat, enables you for free to upload a picture of yourself and have random … more »

Tags: Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com, FaceStat

Face Stat helps you choose the best photo

welovefresh wrote 2 months ago: Having trouble choosing the right profile picture for your social networks? FaceStat is giving you t … more »

Tags: People, Tools, FaceStat, Pictures], Face, stats, Amazon

The Trivial Example of Stupefication

stephenfoster wrote 2 months ago: When we stupefy a task, we construct another task or series of tasks, the sum of which require less … more »

Tags: Chess, deep blue, Artificial Intelligence, Quantification, tasks, Novel, Novels, sufficient condition, Grandmasters

Ten Thousand Cents and the Normalizing Power of Crowds

Peter Organisciak wrote 2 months ago: Back in January, when I demonstrated the Mechanical Turk to my Crowdsourcing students, I would show … more »

Tags: crowdsourcing, Commercial, ten thousand cents, Money, Art

Mechanical Turk and 12,000 drawings of sheep facing left

brontoari wrote 2 months ago: by Katharine Mieszkowski *** Curtis Taylor, 50, a corporate trainer in Clarksville, Ind., who has ea … more »

Tags: The New Economy, internet cyber job

Example of cyberspace overtaking labor laws

brontoari wrote 2 months ago: by Katharine Mieszkowski *** The real human ingenuity of Mechanical Turk shines in the novel ways th … more »

Tags: The New Economy, Internet Economy, cyber law

Amazon Gives You Answers. Now.

Josh Kutticherry wrote 3 months ago: Amazon recently unveiled a new “Web” service, called NowNow, that allows users to find … more »

Tags: technology, New Business Model, Services (Other), Amazon, nownow, Mobile web

Amazon Mechanical Turk

range wrote 3 months ago: The Amazon Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing marketplace. (wiki) … more »

Tags: technology, blogs, Memetics, Programming, Asides, Amazon, crowdsourcing

Updates on my money making scheme

kitten2friends wrote 5 months ago: First of all my scheme is a sloppy one, because I don’t really have a strategy on increasing m … more »

Tags: monetize blog, AdSense, Amazon, Commission Junction, PayPerPost

Mechanical Turk: Steve Fossett

Gerald Buckley wrote 10 months ago: Help if you can please? Thanks! As emailed from Amazon Mechanical Turk yesterday: On Monday, Septemb … more »

Tags: Steve Fossett

Help find missing pilot Steve Fossett

melissa wrote 10 months ago: I received the following email from Amazon/Mechanical Turk earlier today. Thanks to a generous frien … more »

Tags: Amazon

Article on Jim Gray

Peter Organisciak wrote 11 months ago: As a follow-up to my short profile on the Mechanical Turk, Wired has published a story about Jim Gra … more »

Tags: Further Reading, Headlines

The Cons of the Turk: Virtual Sweatshopping

Peter Organisciak wrote 11 months ago: A recurring criticism of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is that it is misused as a virtual sweatsho … more »

Tags: Commercial, crowdsourcing, Negatives

Mechanical Turk customer service email address

Rob Webb wrote 11 months ago: I wasted about an hour of my life today trying to find an email address for customer service at Amaz … more »

Tags: Amazon.com

Amazon creates a human machine with Mechanical Turk1 comment

Peter Organisciak wrote 11 months ago: Earlier this year, Turing Award -winning computer scientist Jim Gray set out on a short sailing tri … more »

Tags: Profiles

Human Computation, Game Design, and Behavioral Economics1 comment

Rob Webb wrote 1 year ago: The philosophies generally associated with the University of Chicago usually orbit around free marke … more »

Tags: Chicago GSB, cool presentation, LinkedIn, Markets, University of Chicago Law School

Mechanical Turk: Review

Gerald Buckley wrote 1 year ago: Well, as promised, for giggles I picked a HIT from The Mechanical Turk and performed the work and go … more »

Tags: Amazon