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AWS Mechanical Turk

Mechanical Turk (MTurk)

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it easier for individuals and businesses to outsource their processes and jobs to a distributed workforce who can perform these tasks virtually.

  • Managed human task outsourcing - API's - extend your app with humans
  • Requester post Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs)
  • Workers earn by completing HITs
  • Pay per Task, Perfect for tasks suited for humans rather than ML
  • Qualifications - worker attribute, can require a test and can be requirement to complete HITs
  • Data collection, manual processing, image classification
  • can create data to use for ML training
  • List of 1000 vets and cupcakes store - find telephone, opneing hours

Use Cases

  • MTurk can be a great way to minimize the costs and time required for each stage of ML development. It is easy to collect and annotate the massive amounts of data required for training machine learning (ML) models with MTurk.
  • Common examples include the moderation of web and social media content, categorization of products or images, and the collection of data from websites or other resources.