Remedial tasks to the rescue!

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is always hiring. Computers have successfully taken plenty of jobs away from the work force, but fortunately for us not all tasks can be performed by a computer! Sometimes, a job just calls for an HIT (a Human Intelligence Task) .

The Mechanical Turk name is based on “The Turk,” which was an 18th century chess-playing machine that appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent. Sure, it turned out The Turk was a hoax, an illusion, but oh wellz, welcome to the work force!