a common blog for block 23 [notes and links]

artificial artificial intelligence
when we think of interfaces between human beings and computers, we usually assume that the human being is the one requesting that a task be completed, and the computer is completing the task and providing the results. what if this process were reversed and a computer program could ask a human being to perform a task and return the results? what if it could coordinate many human beings to perform a task?
Amazon Mechanical Turk does this - you can earn money by being human.
posted by k at 13.11.05