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” ...

The use cases for MTurk are almost endless. Here's how to prepare your tasks and your workers for success Russell Smith is cofounder and CTO of Rainforest QA. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, is a ...

Inside the weird, wild, low-wage world of Mechanical Turk. The computer showed a photo of what looked like a school board meeting. My job was to rate it on a scale of 1 to 5 for 23 different qualities ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Users signed up to ...

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 founder Jeff Bezos has found that many of his innovations have had unintended consequences. (The Associated Press) For years, undergraduates wielded astonishing -- and mostly secret - power in ...

When her husband lost his factory job in 2010, Kristy Milland ran through her options. Until that point, she’d been working at home, earning extra money through odd jobs like selling collectables on ...

Amazon just raised the costs of using Mechanical Turk — its platform to let users crowd source "human intelligence tasks" to people all around the world — and researchers aren't happy, the Wall Street ...