Inside the Automaton of Mechanical Turk

DECEMBER 28, 2017 Brett Wallace[1] Introduction        Amazon Mechanical Turk is an online crowdsourcing marketplace founded by Amazon in 2005. The service, described as “artificial artificial intelligence”, provides micro-work in the form of atomized tasks that humans can perform better than computers. The name was inspired by “The Turk”, a mechanical chess playing automaton, … Continue reading Inside the Automaton of Mechanical Turk