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Re:How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk? by londons_explore on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:51AM (#20438673)
Some MTurk tasks are amenable to sub-contracting out or writing bots to mostly or fully automate.

If he does that, I could see it being competitive on an hourly basis to a regular job.

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Re:How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk? by brighter2morrow on Monday July 15, 2019 @07:39AM (#20439840)
As someone who regularly purchases work from MTurk, some rando's crumby bot is absolutely not what I'm looking for. We're training our own AI from MTurk responses, and we're sending to MTurk difficult edgecases that our own AI gets wrong.
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Re:How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk? by fouc on Monday July 15, 2019 @08:47AM (#20440253)
It's AI turtles all the way down.
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Re:How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk? by dalbasal on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:59AM (#20438701)
How open are Amazon to this?

Ooh, the idea of mTurk is "human powered." OTOH, a market for tasks that can be do e via a combination of automations and humans could be powerful.

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Re:How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk? by jwieczorek on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:04AM (#20438720)
Such a combination is what Unbabel does in translation. ML-driven automated translation followed by crowd-sourced human review and corrections. It's a neat idea and could be the future of translation (as opposed to full automation).
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Re:How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk? by dahfizz on Monday July 15, 2019 @07:44AM (#20439876)
I would assume that Amazon already does this. If a task is trivial enough for an AI, they would do it themselves and get the posters money before the job gets forwarded to the Turks.
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Re:How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk? by dalbasal on Monday July 15, 2019 @09:54AM (#20440820)
Sure, Amazon have all sorts of ml APIs. But a task platform where anyone can complete the tasks using ai, humans or a combination that f both could be substantial impressive.

Say you need to look through 20k images and determine if they contain hipsters. There may not be an off-the-shelf hipster detector. Maybe you could make one, or use humans or a combination by training an NN.. etc.

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