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Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a platform for processing images, a task well-suited to human intelligence. Requesters have created tasks that ask workers to label objects found in an image, select the most relevant picture in a group of pictures, screen inappropriate content, classify objects in satellite images, or digitize text from images ...
A small survey of Amazon Mechanical Turk workers found they think Mechanical Turk employers treat workers about as fairly as offline employers in their home country. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Microtasking services have been criticized for not providing healthcare and retirement benefits, sick pay , and minimum wage , because they pay by the piece ...
The idea was born out of Damer's own frustration with existing options, including Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk), when carrying out research for her own PhD. By 'obscure' I mean: It wasn't ...
Amazon Mechanical Turk has received a great deal of attention in particular. A study in 2008 by Ipeirotis found that users at that time were primarily American, young, female, and well-educated, with 40% earning more than $40,000 per year. In November 2009, Ross found a very different Mechanical Turk population where 36% of which was Indian.
In 2005, Amazon launched Amazon Mechanical Turk, the name for which was inspired by The Mechanical Turk. Amazon Mechanical Turk is an online service uses remote human labor hidden behind a computer interface to help employers perform tasks that are not possible using a true machine, roughly analogous to the original Mechanical Turk.
The tasks involved in a micro-volunteering project are often similar to the crowdsourcing tasks found on crowdwork platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. Tagging photos from a vast database [11] or transcribing manuscripts are some examples. NASA's ClickWorkers project asks online volunteers to identify martian craters from photos.
Amazon Mechanical Turk, a platform on which crowdsourcing tasks called "HITs" (Human Intelligence Tasks") can be created and publicized and people can execute the tasks and be paid for doing so. Dubbed "Artificial Artificial Intelligence", it was named after The Turk, an 18th-century chess-playing "machine".
Fred Benenson is an American programmer, founder, entrepreneur, and writer. He was the second employee of Kickstarter and worked at Y Combinator. [1] His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, WIRED, and the Los Angeles Times, and in 2009, he created Emoji Dick, an emoji translation of Moby-Dick which was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2013.