Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments ...

Amazon Mechanical Turk, or MTurk for short, is an online service that Amazon launched in 2005 to complete small tasks known ...

Hinton moved to the University of Toronto in 1987 and began attracting young researchers who wanted to study neural networks.

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 ...

In 2014, the British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a book about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) with the ...

Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk or AMT) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that businesses or researchers can use to outsource parts of their jobs, everything from data validation to finding survey ...

Getty Images The 18th Century Mechanical Turk fooled chess players into thinking they were competing against a machine Back in 2005, Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos called crowdsourced microwork the ...

Their experiments involved 101, 62, 87, 28, 69, 160, and 105 participants, respectively, all recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk. Each participant listened to musical segments in which ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

A subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides a Web services system that uses people to perform tasks better handled by humans than computers. Mechanical Turk is a "crowdsourcing" system, in which ...