Mechanical Turk is a "crowdsourcing" system, in which requesters post Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) along with the fee they will pay for their completion. Turkers (the workers) choose their HITs ...

Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...

Special delivery at heaven’s open door on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. Richard Lee Turk, 88 years old, was born on a farm east ...

The evolution of education from ancient caves to AI classrooms prompts reflection on past, present, and future implications.

From the Mechanical Turk to Elon Musk's remote-controlled robots, wily tech salesmen have often pulled the wool over our eyes. But if it seems like Musk is plumbing new depths in his bid to make ...

Captricity, a service which uses Amazon Mechanical Turk to digitize paper forms, is helping the Food And Drug Administration tackle a massive drug safety report backlog. How Amazon Mechanical Turk ...