How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
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How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
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Re: How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
#2Surprising stats. I’ve been aware of mech Turk a long time, but did not realize average pay per task is quite that low
Re: How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
#3wow, those number suck hard.
I wonder what Nationality these "Turker" are from...
Re: How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
#4I want to know who is paying $0.01 USD to get someone to manually transrcibe a reciept to a table.
It seems the Mechanical Turk ecconomy could be dwindling due to the accessiblity of AI these days.
Re: How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
#5wow, those number suck hard . I wonder what Nationality these "Turker" are from...
> Despite an uptick in foreign users over the past few years, the majority of them (75%) are based in the US.
Re: How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
#6If you'd like to see what this looks like in practice see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Qt6bVc5mY&list=PLuh2SVJZ17...
The hourly rate will flash every few seconds.
Re: How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
#7I want to know who is paying $0.01 USD to get someone to manually transrcibe a reciept to a table. It seems the Mechanical Turk ecconomy could be dwindling due to the accessiblity of AI these days.
Well, AI can't handle the edge cases yet. For some businesses it makes more economical sense to invest in Turk for transcription rather than training a ML model, which obviously requires a sizeable investment. Either way, you'll need a decent training set and Turk is great for that.
Re: How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
#8I want to know who is paying $0.01 USD to get someone to manually transrcibe a reciept to a table. It seems the Mechanical Turk ecconomy could be dwindling due to the accessiblity of AI these days.
Possibly Expensify? There was that news that came out a bit ago that their "SmartScan" actually fell back on Mechanical Turk [1] even though it was sold as a AI-type thing.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/expen...
Re: How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
#9I want to know who is paying $0.01 USD to get someone to manually transrcibe a reciept to a table. It seems the Mechanical Turk ecconomy could be dwindling due to the accessiblity of AI these days.
Possibly Expensify? There was that news that came out a bit ago that their "SmartScan" actually fell back on Mechanical Turk [1] even though it was sold as a AI-type thing. [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/expen...
Yep
>“Most people’s first mistake is they go on there and accept any task they see,” says Naab. “They’ll do these transcriptions — $0.01 to transcribe a whole receipt for Expensify. That’s a terrible ROI.”
Re: How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
#10wow, those number suck hard . I wonder what Nationality these "Turker" are from...
> Despite an uptick in foreign users over the past few years, the majority of them (75%) are based in the US.
It is a complete waste of time in many ways but every once in a while I will log on and take a couple surveys while watching a rerun of something before bed. I used to do some survey design/analysis in academia and sometimes it is interesting to see what or how weird the surveys are. I would guess my hourly rate is about $3 and I used that very small amount to buy splurge on cheap useless stuff on Amazon.