Amazon Mechanical Turk
Marketplace for hiring people for small tasks
A crowdsourcing marketplace: you post small tasks (HITs) such as labeling, surveys, or data checks, and workers around the world take them on for pay.
- Cost$ Low
- Difficulty●●●●●
- Costs money when idle?No
- Serverless
Think of it asLike posting a notice for helpers to do odd jobs: whoever is free picks up the work and gets paid.
When to use it
✓ Use it when
You need many people to do small tasks that machines don't yet do well.
✗ Avoid it when
ML data labeling with workflow management → SageMaker Ground Truth.
Common uses
- Large-scale image labeling
- User surveys
- Data quality checks
What does it cost?
- Pricing model: You pay workers per task, plus a commission to MTurk calculated as a percentage of the payment.
