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Ghost in the Turk

Posted by Éric on Jan 30, 2009 in Blog | 0 comments

I recently found out, through one of the referrers of my website, the Amazon Mechanical Turk website. Never shy of a new experience, I register to see by myself what it’s all about. The premise is simple. Some jobs cannot be automated by machines (doesn’t sound too bad to me) and are relatively simple to be done by humans —and we’re not talking of playing chess (the origin of the “turk” moniker.) These simple tasks are given to people to be done for a small fee. I found some...