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Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:29 PM

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Posted Thursday, March 29, 2012 6:58 AM

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sort of like this?

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Posted Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:51 AM

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How cool! I am wondering whether the Mechanical Turk workflow follows most other groups of humans in IT...where we look to automate the repetitive incrementally over time. I suppose the efficiency team would be AI experts, pretty cool job.

For your two tasks I am left wondering whether you took on a high-valued* task and a low-valued-task ($0.06 + $0.01) or whether they were more closely valued ($0.04 + $0.03).

* High-valued is relative in this case Wink

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Posted Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:32 AM

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The Mechanical Turk may be the first documented case of a slick salesperson showcasing Vaporware.

"Wise people understand the 10,000 things without going to each one.
They know them without having to look at each one,
and they transform all without acting on each one." - The Tao Te Ching: Verse 47

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