Mechanical Turk

How awesome! Amazon Mechanical Turk bills itself as “Artificial Artificial Intelligence” — complete simple tasks that people do better than computers, and they pay you for it.

Close to having enough money to buy a CD? Write a few product descriptions for Amazon themselves, and they'll give you 75¢ for each one. It's not difficult, either:

You may copy the product description from the manufacturer's website.

This reminds me of a short story I read once, about a man and a woman competing as micro-researchers, hunting down information for money….

Posted at 2005-11-04 04:08:07 by Richard • Link to Mechanical Turk
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