Felipe Cabrera of Amazon.com's web services division talks about the 1769 invention, The Mechanical Turk, a chess playing automaton that actually concealed a human chess master. Similarly, web sites like Amazon use human intelligence to do things computers can't. Amazon has a web services API called Mechanical Turk, now in beta, that lets developers tap into collective human intelligence.
Felipe Cabrera
Felipe Cabrera of Amazon.com’s web services division talks about the 1769 invention, The Mechanical Turk, a chess playing automaton that actually concealed a human chess master. Similarly, web sites like Amazon use human intelligence to do things computers can’t. Amazon has a web services API called Mechanical Turk, now in beta, that lets developers tap […]
