Amazon Mechanical Turk - Addiction for the visually oriented
I feel like on of Pavlov dogs. I heard peripherally about Amazon'sMechanical Turk at MindCamp last weekend, but I was in another session when it was presented. But there was so much buzz about it, I had it bookmarked to check out. My husband has to work today, so yes, I'm back online!
AmazonTurk is a smart application from Amazon that uses humans to do the work that humans do best and then fold it into the larger AI engine that drives Amazon. In this case, it is using human's visual process to identify if pictures of businesses are good enough for people to use them to find the business.
I process visually pretty fast, and I think pretty well. So this was like one giant game. I logged on and before long I was humming through the "HITs" (Human Intelligence Task). Before I knew it I had submitted 27, had 18 approved for a $.03 payment and 3 are pending. It's like a game. Uh oh, I'm in trouble!
Seriously, there is interesting stuff going on here. Smarter people will understand it, but us intuitives know something hot when we see it. This is hot. I'm not sure why yet, but I'd bet on it.
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posted by Nancy White at 11:35 AM
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I also missed the Mechanical Turk presentation at MindCamp. One of several that I wish afterward I'd made it to!
So I did the same thing yesterday and I decided to calculate just how fast I'd have to be process HITs to make a decent wage. I think I calculated that I'd have to be able to process one HIT every 5 seconds to make $20/hr.
That's not sustainable all day long, of course. So I figure that by the time one adds time in the day for getting a cup of coffee, going to the restroom, getting another cup of coffee, lunch, blogging, and the occassional distraction :-), he might be able to make minimum wage processing HITs.
So career people aren't going to be making any serious bank with the turk. But this could revolution the answer to the question of where you worked your first job for minimum wage as a teenager. The answer used to be some version of McDonalds. In the future, it will be Mechanical Turk.
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