Comments on: Mechanical Turk = Genius

By: Honor Gunday

Honor Gunday — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 23:30:08 +0000

The choice of the name is culturally incentive, and see why: http://honorico.com/?p=20

By: Chateau d'If

Chateau d'If — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 15:14:25 +0000

Mechanical Turk

So, this morning I check out Technorati and the top search term is “Mechanical Turk.” Hmmm, I say (or rather hum) to myself, what’s all this then? It’s not the first time a top Technorati search term has left me guessing (the usual suspects relate to modern music, e.g., Babyshambles or some such — I am so well preprared to embarass my daughter 7-10 years from now). However logical my initial hunch, I instinctively mistrust even the notion of a Fully Automated Istanbul.

By: Perceptric Forum

Perceptric Forum — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 07:00:13 +0000

Amazon humanises computer jobs.

Amazon has introduced the Mechanical Turk named after an 18th century hoax. Business Week thinks “it could have great potential for tapping into the wisdom of crowds” Exactly. Amazon are asking the hordes to help them complete tasks th…

By: analystblog

analystblog — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 23:51:04 +0000

Artificial Artificial Intelligence

The Amazon Mechanical Turk — mundane tasks as a web service! Bizarre and intriguing in that Amazon-kind-of-way. Found out about this from Greg Yardley of course….

By: David Flanagan

David Flanagan — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:21:37 +0000

I’d say it goes beyond the “entertainingly bizarre” and veers into the downright creepy. I try to explain why I think so here: http://www.davidflanagan.com/blog/2005_11.html#000089

By: Belligerati

Belligerati — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:23:25 +0000

Innovation from Amazon

Captcha (completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart) are those annoying and disabled unfriendly distorted pictures of text that websites use make you prove that you are not a shell script running on a zombie computer….