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    MTURK comes from "Mechanical Turk" the vintage arcade attraction of a mechanical turk who could play chess. Apparently there was a man behind he mechanical turk, so it wassn't a clever as it appeared. The MTURK web site has been set up by Amazon to get humans to carry out some... more

    Reviewed by davrobin Feb 25 2007, 04:25pm ( 36 reviews ) • mturk.com

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  • Rated by analogous on Aug 14 2008, 11:42am

    online market for human intelligence tasks

  • Rated by msanthrope on Feb 17 2008, 8:36pm

    What does a person have to do to earn a penny?

  • Rated by Birks79 on Feb 11 2008, 11:43am

    Complete tasks that are really hard for computers but easy for people and get paid slave labor wages for it! Thumbs up for the idea, thumbs down for how much these people are paying.

  • Rated by ThyNameIsP on Jan 08 2008, 1:07pm

    Give in to the corporate whores and become a mindless worker drone, YAY!

  • Rated by wordsleuth on Oct 08 2007, 3:00pm

    Now even John Q. Public can outsource to India.

  • Rated by trench55 on Sep 05 2007, 12:46pm

    "artificial artificial intelligence." If you need a process completed that only humans can do given current technology, you can simply make a request to the service to complete the process. The machine will then complete the task with volunteers (people), and return the results to your software. Used when Jim Grey was lost at sea. :-(

  • Rated by Thlayli on Apr 10 2007, 9:34am

    This service, an artificial-artificial-intelligence work-farm, seems like a neat idea. Until, that is, you realize that it's offering to pay you $0.50/hour to do menial content-analysis tasks.

  • Rated by alicia27 on Mar 17 2007, 9:04pm

    I've spent entirely too much time on this site for the measly $1.49 I earned... I gave it up quickly after beginning. There are much easier ways to earn more money... much more quickly online.

  • Rated by davrobin on Feb 25 2007, 4:25pm

    MTURK comes from "Mechanical Turk" the vintage arcade attraction of a mechanical turk who could play chess. Apparently there was a man behind he mechanical turk, so it wassn't a clever as it appeared. The MTURK web site has been set up by Amazon to get humans to carry out some simple repetitive tasks that are just too complex for machines! The humans get paid (a pittance) for doing the work... but it is a fun concept... give it a whirl! You are liable to earn the princely sum of $0.20 for about half an hour's work! (slave labour or what!)

  • Rated by Jouslare on Jan 19 2007, 3:10pm

    "Artificial artificial intelligence" -- the machines need to suck a little more out of us before they entirely take over... It's an interesting concept - farming out basic tasks (database coding, GIS tagging etc.) and paying piece-rate. Very low rates. Some creative uses have come up(feedback on marketing campaigns, driving hits to websites etc.). But why would someone pay you to draw a picture of a sheep or write a research essay on genital warts?? Check out the "thumbs up" I gave to a fashion shoe-shopping blog. Got paid 60 cents to do that on mturk... What's the old joke "now we know what you are, we're just haggling over price"... I guess I'm easy AND cheap!