The People Behind Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

Posted by Alex in Blogs & Internet on December 21, 2008 at 1:18 pm

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a web service that lets you assign tasks to human workers in exchange for payments. It is named after The Turk, a chess playing automaton made by Wolfgang von Kempelen in the late 1700s (it turned out that a chess master was hiding inside the machine).

Andy Baio of Waxy was curious to see what exactly the Amazon Mechanical Turk looks like, so naturally he started a new Turk experiment to answer two questions: what do these people look like, and how much does it cost for someone to reveal their face?

Here are his answers, #1:

And #2: about $0.50

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