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Descriptive Camera prints out descriptions of pictures, not pictures themselves
Matt Richardson's "Descriptive Camera" sends your pictures to Amazon's Mechanical Turk and jobs out the task of writing a brief description of each image, then outputs the text on a thermal printer. It's a camera that captures descriptions, not pictures. The technology at the core of the Descriptive Camera is Amazon's Mechanical Turk API. It [...]
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In defense of Amazon's Mechanical Turk
I can find no better description of Amazon's Mechanical Turk than in the "description" tag at the site itself: The online market place for work. We give businesses and developers access to an on-demand scalable workforce. Workers ca... Read Post
Outsourcing gets easier with new features on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s service that allows companies to outsource menial tasks that still require some human intelligence (like writing product descriptions or categorizing images), just got more accessible. Today it released fea... Read Post
Descriptive Camera by Matt Richardson
The Descriptive Camera by NYU ITP grad student Matt Richardson is an experimental camera that only outputs a text description of whatever is photographed. It is powered by the Amazon Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing API—somewhere on th... Read Post