Last week I described my experiences using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to transcribe audio recordings of oral histories I’ve collected. As I explained in that post, it appears that I ended up ...

Amazon's automated human intelligence service, Mechanical Turk, has become more useful to a general audience. To use the service in the past required advanced programming skills. Now Amazon has ...

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Amazon's Mechanical Turk service is all about using humans to perform computer-like tasks, such as identifying objects and transcribing videos. However, those workers are tired of being treated like ...

Recently I had reason to get some audio transcribed using Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk service. The results have been impressive, and in this post I describe my experience and consider ways besides ...

Volunteers are using Mechanical Turk, an Amazon.com Web service, to comb over pictures from Google Earth in hopes of finding missing adventurer Steve Fossett Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk is enlisting ...

The use cases for MTurk are almost endless. Here's how to prepare your tasks and your workers for success Russell Smith is cofounder and CTO of Rainforest QA. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, is a ...

Think back to the last time you had a task for which you would’ve loved to have had an army of workers. Perhaps you had to sort through thousands of articles looking for something specific, or you had ...

I’ve worked in the porn industry. I’ve censored online content. I’ve helped schoolteachers bust plagiarists. I’ve touted real estate. I’ve burned my personal social network to score a few cents. My ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Users signed up to ...

“The Turk” was a famous hoax perpetrated in 1769 by Wolfgang von Kempelen. According to the Wikipedia article on “The Turk” the hoax consisted of a “maplewood cabinet 4 feet long by 2 feet deep and 3 ...