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 ...

From the Mechanical Turk to Rosey Jetson to Data himself, robots have often been imagined as sophisticated machines, capable of running a household while winning at chess and enjoying a good Sherlock ...

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 ...

A personality quiz on Amazon's Mechanical Turk received multiple complaints in 2014, but the quiz-makers continued to use the platform for at least another year. For one month, I became the ...