Posted: Apr 4, 07
3:07pm
Maybe you have heard of it, maybe you haven't, regardless Amazon has an interesting marketplace that could be of interest to anyone who is looking to supplement their income. It's called the Mechanical Turk program.
They way the program works is essentially sign up and start fielding requests for information. Each request has a value associated with it, and once you have satisfied the request you are paid for your effort. It seems that these requests range in value from pennies to dollars, but skew down.
One of the founding principles of the service is that Artificial Intelligence won't ever be as efficient as Human Intelligence. Said another way, Machines count, people think. For example a computer can't tell you the contents of a picture, at least on terms that are meaningful to a human.
Sound interesting? I may try it to see how much I could make in a week.
Anyone else have any solid ideas on supplementing your day job income?
