How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?

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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