Amazon Mechanical Turk

• Provides a managed human task outsourcing system
• Distributed virtual workforce
• Provides a set of APIs and a marketplace to outsource jobs to human beings
• Allows requesters to post Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) to a marketplace
• Tasks are completed by workers, who earn money for it
• Pay per task, perfect for tasks suited to humans rather than ML
• Qualification: worker attribute, we can require a test. A qualification can be a requirement to complete HITs
• Great for data collection, manual processing, image classification
• Example:
  • You have a dataset of 10,000,000 images and you want to labels these images
  • You distribute the task on Mechanical Turk and humans will tag those images
  • You set the reward per image (for example $0.10 per image)
• Use cases:
  • Image classification
  • Data collection
  • Business processing
• Integration with AI services like Amazon A2I and SageMaker Ground Truth to enhance its utility for labeling and reviewing data
• Amazon Mechanical Turk official website