What´s the deal of this Mturk?

Many many people might ask themselves, what´s the deal of this Mturk? or you can even see if you have any hit counter with logs, this “mturk” listed on your log list. It might be your website on this Mturk thingie.

Mturk is a new Amazon product/service which allows people to earn money doing tasks which a person does better than a computer(A subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides a Web services system that use people to perform tasks better handled by humans than computers.), usually an item/event which requires analysis which can’t be programmed.

Requesters post “human intelligence tasks” (HITs) along with the fee paid for completion via the Amazon Web services programming interface. Turkers (the workers) choose their HITs, do the jobs and submit the results. Examples of HITs are locating information on a document, translating foreign languages, transcribing speech, as well as comparing audio to written transcripts. For more information, visit Mturk website..

Who’s the Turk?

The name comes from Wolfgang von Kempelen’s mechanical “Turk” in the mid-1700s, which was an expert chess player dressed up as a wooden mannequin. Defeating challengers throughout Europe, including Napoleon, the Turk sat inside a wooden cabinet wearing a robe and turban. Opening the door to reveal gears and springs inside, Kempelen fooled people into believing this was a mechanical device with artificial intelligence.

~ by trilochankaur on January 29, 2007.