Mechanical Turk - the ultimate Turing test
Somehow I ended up today looking at long expected (only I expected Google to offer it first, what with GFS and such) Amazon S3 data storage web service and JungleDisk as a way to use it for files backup/transfer under Linux. Looks cool so far.
...but that's not the topic of this post. The topic is Amazon's Mechanical Turk -- in essense a system that allows to integrate humans and their brains into arbitrary software. It does not yet feed those humans, no Matrix for you, but it does pay them money.
What occured to me is that this could prove to be the ultimate platform for the Turing test.
We have some software that wants a human to do some task and pays that human for that. What would an entrepreneur do? I think the best way to make money on it is to design another program that would pretend to be human by performing that task. Right? We have the platform, we have demand, we have the economic stimulus -- an ideal situation for an interesting invention.
I can't wait to hear first rumors..
...but that's not the topic of this post. The topic is Amazon's Mechanical Turk -- in essense a system that allows to integrate humans and their brains into arbitrary software. It does not yet feed those humans, no Matrix for you, but it does pay them money.
What occured to me is that this could prove to be the ultimate platform for the Turing test.
We have some software that wants a human to do some task and pays that human for that. What would an entrepreneur do? I think the best way to make money on it is to design another program that would pretend to be human by performing that task. Right? We have the platform, we have demand, we have the economic stimulus -- an ideal situation for an interesting invention.
I can't wait to hear first rumors..
posted by Unknown at 3:03 PM
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