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Mechanical Turk Monitor: February 2006
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Updates and Tidbits on Amazon's Artificial Artificial Intelligence service mTurk. Monday, February 27, 2006. Visit a Site HITs. Visit a Site HITs have been floating around for a while, and today I got a chance to do a little investigating on them. To be plain, these appear to be click-fraud, using mTurk to get users to click ads. When the ads are clicked the advertiser pays them so much for each click. Here's the HIT. I am going to break down. It takes you here. Whose affiliate program's TOS states.
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Mechanical Turk Monitor: May 2006
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Updates and Tidbits on Amazon's Artificial Artificial Intelligence service mTurk. Tuesday, May 23, 2006. HIT: Make a Sound! Enjoy making goofy sounds? Do you often make small squeaks or squeals to express yourself? Then this HIT could be for YOU! But hey the HIT. Pays 1 dollar and you have a chance to win $500 so check it out. I suggest going for a AOL type approach (referencing "You've Got Mail").Some attractive sounding female going "Alert! Posted by Eric Cranston at 4:21 PM. Saturday, May 20, 2006.
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Mechanical Turk Monitor: The Sheep Market: Two Cents Worth
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Updates and Tidbits on Amazon's Artificial Artificial Intelligence service mTurk. Thursday, November 30, 2006. The Sheep Market: Two Cents Worth. Aaron Koblin has published his thesis paper. On the rather intriguing Sheep Market. Book Another half-experiment/half project that used the Mechanical Turk. So just what does motivate the Turkers? What motivates someone playing a game? The high point of my Turking, and all of the old Turkers was the Image Adjustments. Semi-mindless tasks that we did over an...
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Mechanical Turk Monitor: You Can Help Find Jim Gray (from home)
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Updates and Tidbits on Amazon's Artificial Artificial Intelligence service mTurk. Friday, February 02, 2007. You Can Help Find Jim Gray (from home). Repost from Werner's blog. Computer science icon Jim Gray. After a solo trip with his sail boat outside San Francisco Bay. The coast guard has been searching for 4 days but has not been able to locate anything, not even debris. On Thursday 3 private planes searched through the coastal areas and they also returned unsuccessful. Site and help us find Jim Gray.
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Mechanical Turk Monitor: Contracts and Mortage Lookups are Flooding my Window!
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Updates and Tidbits on Amazon's Artificial Artificial Intelligence service mTurk. Wednesday, November 29, 2006. Contracts and Mortage Lookups are Flooding my Window! Lately whenever I visit mTurk. Which is often), the top of it is flooded with a bunch of HITs that I have no interest in. And most Turkers don't have any interest in them either or they'd be disappearing at a decent rate. And then there's the newer but similar HITs, "Contract details" from JB (JB is actually an Amazon Employee. Something tha...
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Mechanical Turk Monitor: November 2005
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Updates and Tidbits on Amazon's Artificial Artificial Intelligence service mTurk. Tuesday, November 29, 2005. Embracing "Confirm Artist Name" HIT's. Well I've never been a fan of the 2 cent "Confirm Artist Name" HIT's, but today I learned to appreciate them. Most can be done faster then Image Adjustments and some of the album covers are pretty entertaining. Here's my setup, first off I am using Firefox 1.5RC3. With the extension Greasemonkey 0.6.3. Then I am using the Greasemonkey script TurkOp. Which te...
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Mechanical Turk Monitor: Blank CAPTCHAs! Freeze your Turking!
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Updates and Tidbits on Amazon's Artificial Artificial Intelligence service mTurk. Monday, November 27, 2006. Ok, so I was innocently just plowing through a bunch of Survey Verification HITs, and then BAM! I get a blank CAPTCHA. I was using Firefox.and was stunned, I had read about this issue before on Turker Nation. But I figured it had since been resolved. I'm unsure still of what causes this issue, but I hope they address it soon because it sucks when you are on a roll and then stuck. Requestor Tool: m...
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Mechanical Turk Monitor: March 2006
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Updates and Tidbits on Amazon's Artificial Artificial Intelligence service mTurk. Tuesday, March 28, 2006. I'm lost. SingASound has one HIT up in which it has you go here. There you try to imitate a tone. Which basically makes me think either they are developing a brilliant midi to human sound converter (which would be so weird.But cool) Or have go insane. Seriously.What is this for? Posted by Eric Cranston at 6:18 PM. Thursday, March 16, 2006. And we can set one up. Posted by Eric Cranston at 4:33 PM.
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Mechanical Turk Monitor: Little of this, a little of that
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Updates and Tidbits on Amazon's Artificial Artificial Intelligence service mTurk. Thursday, November 02, 2006. Little of this, a little of that. So I've had bad updater ship lately. Sorry! First off there's a nice article on Turking by the Christian Science Monitor. Which states that the reason AskForCents stopped was because of NowNow. Afraid of some corporate competition? Secondly, von Kemplen. As well I've been seeing some language translations up from them. Posted by Eric Cranston at 8:44 AM. This ha...