Mechanical
Turk intro about how a Hungarian invented a chess playing machine and beat
people with it. There were intricate gears pulleys etc. when he showed people.
In fact he was cheating. There was a human chess master inside the machine.
There are
many things that you can do with computers. Computers are good at some
complicated things. Computers are bad at things that require judgement.
Need to
incorporate people into the decision process.
A human
bulids some software that turns around and asks humans to do something. There
is a web service API that lets people find people to do things for other
people. They have had upo to 43,000 users to do something at once.
You as a
developer just make a call as you normally would but instead of a computer
figuring it out it a human does.
He went
thorugh a bunch of examples of how businesses can use this.
Chris -
my impression after trying this a few months ago was that not many people were
using this. It's a cool idea though.
Efficient
Frontiers uses it to figure out if keywords are relevant or not
A9 uses
it to figure out which is the better picture for a store
Castingwords.com
uses mturk to do transcription. Quality is good because there are large numbers
of people on it.This wouldn't have happened without mturk and webservices.
We think this is the tip of the iceberg. All the webservices that Amazon deploys are scalable and have high availablity.
NOTE -
http://www.castingwords.com/etech - free transcription
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