Amazon Mechanical Turk is a new Web service that allows .NET software developers to incorporate the power of human decision-making into their automated software systems

1. Artificial, Artificial Intelligence Using Amazon Mechanical Turk and .NET to Create a New Breed of Web App Jeff Barr Web Services Evangelist Amazon Web Services NGW012

5. Web Service Architecture Operating System Libraries / DLLs / Assemblies Application Internet Web Services Application

9. Amazon Mechanical Turk

10. Man Versus Machine

11. But Not Really

12. Chair Or Table?

13. Survey Says…

16. How It Works www.mturk.com Workers Artificial, Artificially Intelligent Software Requester (Developer) Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) Completed HITs Worker Qualifications

18. High Quality, Inexpensive, Massive Scale Image Clean-Up Which picture best represents this business?

20. Building A HIT Hit- Builder.com

21. Building Applications With Amazon Mechanical Turk

29. Application Flow Load Qualifications Load HITs Any Completed Assignments? Retrieve and Approve Do Local Processing More Work? Y Y Done! Do Local Processing N

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39. © 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.