Amazon Mechanical Turk - guru.com meets GPT
November 21st, 2005Amazon has a new service which seems
to be a mashup of guru.com, Amazon web services, and the whole GPT (get paid to) subculture -
assigning what they call HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) to individuals, who perform a task that is simple to humans, but extremely difficult for computers to do.
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Today, humans still significantly outperform the most powerful computers at
completing such simple tasks as identifying objects in photographs –
something children can do even before they learn to speak. However, when we
think of interfaces between human beings and computers, we usually assume
that the human being is the one requesting that a task be completed, and
the computer is completing the task and providing the results. What if this
process were reversed and a computer program could ask a human being to
perform a task and return the results? What if it could coordinate many
human beings to perform a task?Amazon Mechanical Turk does this, providing a web services API for
computers to integrate Artificial Artificial Intelligence directly into
their processing.Learn more about this new web service on our web site:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=aws_gen_nl13amt?node=15879911
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