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Benjamin Hill

Thanks for the post! Glad you like the concept - we are hard at work this term testing out various strategies to see if it is viable.

(Shameless begging - if anyone out there would like to help us with our initial testing, and has a blog or website that they can host a banner on for 3 weeks, let us know: mycroftnetwork@gmail.com)

Also, we are looking for other tasks (both industry and non-profit) that we can start investigating - we hope to move beyond what Amazon's mechanical turk is doing right now.

Axel

Thanks Alex. This is really cool and a fun way to help out people!

Shannon Clark

This is very similar (though not entirely) to Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk see http://mturk.amazon.com - what they call "artificial Artificial Intelligence"

Judd Antin

It is similar to Mturk in its root principals, but Mycroft sports a key difference: it lives on websites you already visit. You can interact with Mycroft without ever leaving the site that hosts it. We think that enables a lot of very, very cool stuff.

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