Company hopes new tools will make it easier to offer large numbers of tasks on Mechanical Turk, an Internet service that links jobs with people who can do them. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

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 ...

Mechanical Turk is a website owned and operated by Amazon since its creation in 2005. The name comes from an 18 th century chess-playing device commissioned by Austrian Empress Maria Theresa.

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 ...

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 ...