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Amazon's Mechanical Turk
rscoggin writes "Amazon.com has a new program that wants you to 'Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it.' (example: 'Is there a pizza parlour in this photograph?'). For each task you complete you get a small payment, usually ranging from a few cents to a little under a dollar. It's named the Amazon Mechanical Turk after a famous hoax from the 19th century. Kill time and get paid in tiny increments to boot!" Similar to Google Answers, there seems to be a reliability ratings system and some incentives.
Great... Another way for /.'ers to waste time at work.
GOOD JOB AMAZON
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
This could get addictive.
- can you see boobs in the picture ?
- Is there a donkey in the picture ?
- Can you see the can of whipped cream ?
- is there chocolate paint involved..
Advanced indexing of Pr0n, humanity is moving forward, no doubt.
Wow, I can give up my day job!
Open Source Drum Kit, LPLC deve board - mjhdesigns.com
following HIT: "Is there a goat in that picture?"
Even better would be if there were pictures of people enjoying pepsi with the same question and answer as you gave and then they also had ugly people drinking coke and cringing, etc. with the same question, but new answer, "coke."
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
Keep them coming, Amazon!
On se Internetz nobody noes your German.
or as we used to say in the UK, "Pull the other one, it's get bells on"
Or as I say today, "40 cents for a product description!?!?! Fuck off!"
No but, yeah but, no but...
Don't say I didn't warn you.
Soylent Green is peoplicious!
Well, that is probably a whole month's average income for someone in Elbonia...
Oh well, what the hell...
... basically it's just like a sneaker factory in Vietnam, but with a cool-sounding name.
#DeleteChrome
Make the site dog ass slow so you can ID 3 photos in 10 minutes. I'm up to 9 cents! I guess I should get back to coding, since thats what the OTHER people are paying me to do right now...
It's not about the money; it's about fucking with Amazon, by giving hilariously incorrect answers.
Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers.
I wonder if serving web pages counts as such a task. Because their computers sure are doing a crappy job of it at the moment.
..they could ask us questions like "Is this a dupe?"
-- Boycott Shell
I've revised your business model:
1. Volunteer at an orphanage in China.
For the perfect anti-Unix, write an OS that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do and let it be wrong.
Or maybe this would require a new "Grid Kid" architecture with an advanced resource broker to farm out the questions based on difficulty and school grade level.
I think you should have charged $0.03 for that information.
Doug
Venn ist das nurnstuck git und Slotermeyer? Ya! Beigerhund das oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
It is good to know that we humans are still not obsolete, even though we have been relegated to the menial jobs...
It looks like you're trying to post to Slashdot!
Do you want to:
a) make the grammatical correction above;
b) go back to flipping hamburgers; or
c) commence robot-smashing?
-Clippy
There are definitely parts of the world where that would be a fantastic income, but my home country isn't one of them.
Yes, and I am sure they all have Amazon.com accounts with credit-cards hooked up to them.