A mysterious new application
The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is one of the suite of Amazon Web Services, a crowdsourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do. Requesters, the human beings that write these programs, are able to pose tasks known as HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks), such as choosing the best among several photographs of a storefront, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs. Workers (called Providers in Mechanical Turk's Terms of Service) can then browse among existing tasks and complete them for a monetary payment set by the Requester. To place HITs, the requesting programs use an open Application Programming Interface, or the somewhat limited Mturk Requester site.… More Edit
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Did you create this app?| Website: | mturk.com |
| Developer: | Amazon.com, Inc. |
| License: | Free |
| Usage: | 6 days, 4 hours, 58 minutes and 54 seconds |
| Usage since: | 13 October 2008 |
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