Human Feedback Feeds the Machine

Ahhh ... yes. I love it when someone I know comments on my blog and points me to some cool things based on my post. Big shout out to Brian Delassandro for following up on my post on networking the human mind to solve really hard problems, That's Using Your Noggin.

Brian points us to Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a way to request the services of a network of knowledge workers. What could you use it for?

• Market research on pricing of products
• Classify animal and plant specimens
• Solicit reviews for products to help populate your social network
• Transcribe something into another language

What could you do with a million simple tasks? A billion? A trillion?