Strange Human Labor
http://www.amazon.com/gp/…6?node=15879911
Humans working for other humans is nothing new, but Amazon Mechanical Turk is. As a programmer, you could write an application that requires a human’s touch. For example, if part of your application required identifying if a particular image had a slice of pizza present, it would be much easier to have a human perform this task than to write some crazy pizza slice image recognition system. Mechanical Turk allows you to programmatically create a mini job description on mturk.com, and someone with the time will eventually perform this task and receive in exchange a few cents’ worth of payment.
This really freaks me out.