Thanks to Sundeep for sending around this post about how Amazon's Mechanical Turk is changing how we'll think about labor for years to come. This post is laser-sharp in its description of these changes. It talks about Amazon's new iPhone app which uses Mechanical Turk to do image recognition and product recommendation. Genius. Human labor to solve the problem that's been bedeviling software engineers for decades. It turns out not to be a software problem - but a problem of being locked into the idea that labor is expensive. This is one post that you do not want to miss.
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"Once you’re able to get over that hump of believing that human labor can only be an expensive, limited resource, an entire vista of compelling applications open up."
"Once you’re able to get over that hump of believing that human labor can only be an expensive, limited resource, an entire vista of compelling applications open up."
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