Turking is an act of accomplishing Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Workers are paid for the numbers of HITs they accomplish. Since the Nov. 2005 launch of Amazon Mechanical Turk, turking has become a popular online activity for many college students and computer enthusiasts. Check the Turking web site.
The definition is based on the famous fake automaton Mechanical Turk. In the spring of 1777, Wolfgang von Kempelen appeared at the court of Maria Theresa, the Empress of Austria-Hungary with a chess-playing mechanical man. Over the next 85 years, the device, which came to be known as the Turk, toured Europe and America, impressing audiences young and old with its chess prowess. While The Turk was not a true automaton, its 'successor' El Ajedrecista was. The Turk however was the subject of Raymond Bernard's epic silent film The Chess Player (1930). . . Released now as a DVD. This powerful drama of patriotism, betrayal and suspense combines gorgeous decors and thousands of extras. In 1776 Poland, nobleman Boleslas Vorowski heads a secret liberation movement against Russia and learns his childhood sweetheart, Sophie, loves his friend, a Russian officer. When Vorowsky is wounded in battle, his mentor, the inventor Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen, constructs a marvelous chess- playing automaton which, when summoned by Catherine the Great, holds the fate of Polish independence by a single, suspenseful chess game.
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Let's go Turking by Bill Machrone of PC Magazin
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| Turking potentially creates a vast, unregulated workforce, well under the minimum-wage radar, with no hope of benefits or job security. Everybody's learning how to Turk—or they soon will. When I first heard the term, I thought Turking was some kind of ethnic slur, but it's just a way for people to earn money from home with their computers. Turking takes big tasks and breaks them down into small components that can be done at your computer, typically through a browser interface. You get paid each time you complete a task.
Turking gets its name from "the Turk," an 18th-century mechanical chess-playing machine that had a life-size wooden mannequin in Turkish garb seated at a chess board. Below the board was a myriad of gears and levers, ostensibly the first artificial intelligence. The Turk defeated nearly all challengers and was hailed as an engineering breakthrough. But it actually housed a chess-savvy human within and thus was an artificial artificial intelligence. Amazon picked up on this latter idea: That for some tasks, there is no substitute for human intelligence. It created a Web services application that recruits and screens Turkers, lists tasks from requesters, presents the tasks to Turkers, collects their work, and accumulates their earnings. The tasks themselves, called HITs, for Human Intelligence Tasks, include identifying numeric strings in text documents, photo recognition/analysis, programming/coding tasks, and knowledge base/opinion entries. Check it out at www.mturk.com. | |
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