Amazon's Mechanical Turk It's great to have volunteers

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But not ordinary teenagers, but Dota 2 champions. , but not everyone is interested in searching for spam, circling cows in photos, or doing anything else, especially for free. To solve the problem of personnel for data labeling, Amazon launched the crowdsourcing platform Mechanical Turk ten years ago. The name is not without irony.


In 1770, a certain Wolfgang von Kempelen, an inventor from Austria, created a israel email list chess automaton in the form of a painted wooden figure. The maestro toured Europe and his "mechanical Turk" beat many famous people, including Benjamin Franklin and King Frederick II. It is believed that the box contained a living grandmaster. But this is not a fact - the first of the artificial intelligence hoaxes has not yet been solved.


What's inside? Amazon's Mechanical Turk doesn't play chess. The platform connects customers who need machine learning data with contractors—regular people who get paid modestly to do it. Everything is arranged so that the work is broken down into small simple tasks that any person can solve. They are strictly formalized, contain clear instructions and are called Human Intelligence Tasks (abbreviated HITs).