Mechanical Turk is a service that from its earliest days seemed to invite shenanigans, and indeed researchers show that nearly half of its “turkers” appear to be using AI to do tasks that were ...

Over the past four decades, countless Calvin students taking “Introduction to Psychology” have served as subjects for faculty research projects. Now Calvin’s Center for Social Research has a new tool ...

In the 19th century, the Mechanical Turk's secret was finally revealed because it was possible to open it up and peek inside. Tech leaders looking to adopt generative AI tools should keep in mind ...

Mechanical Turk is a "crowdsourcing" system, in which requesters post Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) along with the fee they will pay for their completion. Turkers (the workers) choose their HITs ...

The Mechanical Turk toured the world, beating many rivals, including Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin and fascinating audiences who were dumfounded by how a machine could play chess. In ...