Mechanical Turk & HIT : the future of most of jobs?
"Mechanical Turk gives businesses and developers access to an on-demand, scalable workforce: - Flexibility: Scale your workforce up and down quickly - Accuracy: Get high-quality, cost-effective results - Speed: Start receiving results in minutes You can dynamically scale your workforce as your business demands: -Access more than 500,000 Workers from 190 countries - Connect with Workers who have a variety of skill sets and capabilities - Scale up and down in minutes Pricing - You decide how much to pay Workers for each HIT (Human Intelligence Task) - Pay only when you're satisfied with the work." What's the hell is this? Slavery? Close. It's Amazon Mechanical Turk . Why this name ? Tomorrow, there will be: Robotized tasks. If your job can be robotized, change. Human Intelligence tasks (HIT). If your job can be divided into very small tasks, be careful. Few jobs too complex to automate and to divide into small HIT. If machines cannot replace you