{"id":294,"date":"2005-11-27T17:26:50","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T23:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=294"},"modified":"2005-11-27T17:26:50","modified_gmt":"2005-11-27T23:26:50","slug":"amazons-mechanical-turk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/294","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did some work a long time ago with <a href='http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/weblog\/archives\/000016.html'>Amazon Web Services<\/a>; I gave them an email address and they periodically send me newsletters about their web services.  The most recent one contained a link to an article about a new service: <a href='http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/browse.html\/002-7683420-8680031?node=15879911'>Amazon Mechanical Turk<\/a>.  This service provides &#8216;Artificial Artificial Intelligence&#8217; and lets developers place tasks in front of humans in a scalable, standardized manner.  Amazon, with their infrastructure, makes sure that the task is completed and pays the human who completes the task.  Right now, I only saw <a href='http:\/\/www.mturk.com\/mturk\/welcome'>one set of tasks<\/a>, sponsored by Amazon, so I&#8217;m not sure of the uptake.  But this is certainly an fascinating idea&#8211;an interesting inverse of the normal computer\/human relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did some work a long time ago with Amazon Web Services; I gave them an email address and they periodically send me newsletters about their web services. The most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}