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[My Own Pirate Radio] The world is flat, cheap, and bite-sized: Today, we build complex software applications based on the things computers do well, such as storing and retrieving large amounts of information or rapidly performing calculations. However, humans still significantly outperform the most powerful computers at completing such simple tasks as identifying objects in photographs—something children can do even before they learn to speak.

[Smart Economy] Human augmented Artificial Intelligence (AI): A life-sized wooden mannequin, adorned with a fur-trimmed robe and a turban, Kempelen’s "Turk" was seated behind a cabinet and toured Europe confounding such brilliant challengers as Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte.

[Language Log] Distributed outsourcing: I wonder whether the numbers really do work out that way -- this person claims to have worked for 30 minutes at a rate of $10.20/hour, minus (an unknown number of) disallowed HITs -- but in any event, a system like this will presumably bring supply and demand into a world-wide equilibrium at a rate of pay that reflects the value that employers put on the product, and the value that workers with the relevant skills put on their time. If employment regulations actually permit such a marketplace to develop...

 [Turkish Torque] Amazon's MECHANICAL TURK Project: function BlogThis() {Q='';x=document;y=window;if(x.selection) {Q=x.selection.createRange().text;} else if (y.getSelection) { Q=y.getSelection();} else if (x.getSelection) { Q=x.getSelection();}popw = y.open('http://www.blogger.com/blog_this.pyra?t=' + escape(Q) + '&u=' + escape(location.href) + '&n=' + escape(document.title),'bloggerForm','scrollbars=no,width=475,height=300,top=175,left=75,status=yes,resizable=yes');void(0);}Create a Link

[23 hours a day // jeremy johnson] The Turk visits the Amazon: A life-sized wooden mannequin, adorned with a fur-trimmed robe and a turban, Kempelen’s “Turk” was seated behind a cabinet and toured Europe confounding such brilliant challengers as Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte.

 [KidneyNotes] Amazon's Mechanical Turk -- "Artificial, Artificial Intelligence" -- And A Blog: A life-sized wooden mannequin, adorned with a fur-trimmed robe and a turban, Kempelen’s "Turk" was seated behind a cabinet and toured Europe confounding such brilliant challengers as Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte. To persuade skeptical audiences, Kempelen would slide open the cabinet’s doors to reveal the intricate set of gears, cogs and springs that powered his invention.

 [EchoDitto Blog | EchoDitto] Are you a mechanical turk? Do you need a human computer?: EchoDitto is currently looking for qualified Web programmers to help us innovate online. See our client list, read our blog, then send us your resume!

 [Amazon.com] Amazon.com Help: Amazon Mechanical Turk does this, providing a web services API for computers to integrate Artificial Artificial Intelligence directly into their processing. ...

 [Web2.wsj2.com] Amazon Understands The Long Tail (web2.wsj2.com): Several things make the Mechnical Turk both unusual and special. One is that the Mechanical Turk service is fundamentally open ended and not tied to any specific product type or service offering, as long as it can be quantified into something they call a HIT (human intelligence task).

 [Ananthapuri.com] Amazon Mechanical Turk - Integrating Artificial Artificial ...: Amazon Mechanical Turk - Integrating Artificial Artificial Intelligence into ... Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to ...

[Techcrunch.com] TechCrunch » Amazon finally reveals itself as the Matrix: I suspect that wouldn’t have been the case had I just remembered what blog told me about the Mechanical Turk and linked to it, since my post would’ve then been identified as a continuation of an already-underway conversation rather than the start of a new one - by forgetting to link out, I think I hijacked the ’spot’ of someone else.

 [Mashable.com] Mashable* » Blog Archive » Amazon Mechanical Turk: Human ...: “Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to ... In reality, a network of humans fuels this artificial, artificial intelligence by ...

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