Company hopes new tools will make it easier to offer large numbers of tasks on Mechanical Turk, an Internet service that links jobs with people who can do them. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a micro-tasking platform that pairs company’s needing small tasks completed with freelancers looking for extra cash. Here’s how it works. Amazon Mechanical Turk, or “MTurk” ...

An Amazon diagram about the Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform. Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments accounts ...

If you are looking for legitimate part-time employment, Amazon Mechanical Turk can certainly be that, but it will take work to learn how to turk efficiently. To each her own, but completing hundreds ...

Inside Amazon’s clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI Your email has been sent Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into ...

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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk human computing system is a handy way to get repetitive tasks done cheaply, quickly, and in ways that code can’t compete with. But is the Turk being used to perpetrate massive ...

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk for short), an online marketplace for digital piece-work, is not somewhere you’re going to get rich any time soon. Most of its tasks are miniscule, and so are the ...

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 ...

Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments accounts without explanation due to an apparent technical problem in the ...