What is Amazon Mechanical Turk?
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk service gives businesses access to a diverse, on-demand, scalable workforce and gives Workers a selection of thousands of tasks to complete whenever it's convenient.
Amazon Mechanical Turk is based on the idea that there are still many things that human beings can do much more effectively than computers, such as identifying objects in a photo or video, performing data de-duplication, transcribing audio recordings, or researching data details. Traditionally, tasks like this have been accomplished by hiring a large temporary workforce (which is time consuming, expensive, and difficult to scale) or have gone undone.
Where does the name Mechanical Turk come from?
In 1769, Hungarian nobleman Wolfgang von Kempelen astonished Europe by building a mechanical chess-playing automaton that defeated nearly every opponent it faced. A life-sized wooden mannequin, adorned with a fur-trimmed robe and a turban, Kempelen’s “Turk” was seated behind a cabinet and toured Europe confounding such brilliant challengers as Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte. To persuade skeptical audiences, Kempelen would slide open the cabinet’s doors to reveal the intricate set of gears, cogs and springs that powered his invention. He convinced them that he had built a machine that made decisions using artificial intelligence. What they did not know was the secret behind the Mechanical Turk: a chess master cleverly concealed inside.
What is a HIT?
A Human Intelligence Task, or HIT, is a question that needs an answer. A HIT represents a single, self-contained task that a Worker can work on, submit an answer, and collect a reward for completing.
How do I create a Worker account on MTurk?
Click the "Get Started with Amazon Mechanical Turk" link in the upper right corner of the Worker website. You will be asked to provide your name, email address, and password. In addition, you will be asked to agree to the Amazon Mechanical Turk Participation Agreement and provide your country of residence. We will send you an email when your registration request is accepted.
Where can I view and edit my name, email address, and password?
You can view and edit your account information by accessing your Account Settings page. Your MTurk Worker account is associated with your Amazon.com account so you will be redirected to Amazon.com to change your name, email address, and password.
My country of residence is the United States. Where can I view and edit my contact address and bank account information?
You can view and edit your contact address and bank account information via Amazon Payments.
My country of residence is outside the United States. Where can I view and edit my contact address and bank account information?
You can view and edit your contact address on Amazon.com. If you have the option to transfer your earnings to your local bank account, you can change your bank account information here.
Getting Paid
How do I get paid?
When the Requester approves your submitted HIT, Amazon Mechanical Turk account will automatically display your earnings on the Dashboard and Earnings pages.
As a security requirement, if you are a new Worker, there is an initial holding period before rewards are transferred to your earnings balance. Your rewards are held until you have been active on Amazon Mechanical Turk for at least 10 days, starting from the day you submit your first HIT. After this initial holding period, you will be able to disperse funds from your earnings balance by visiting the Earnings page. You are limited to one transfer per calendar day.
U.S. Workers: You can transfer your earnings to your Amazon Payments account or to an Amazon.com gift card. You can disburse to your bank account as soon as your earnings are transferred to your Amazon Payments account.
Non-U.S. International Workers You can transfer earnings to an Amazon.com gift card. Eligible Workers may also receive the option to disburse earnings to a US bank account obtained from Hyperwallet or from another third party service provider.
How do I transfer my earnings to my bank account?
Go to the Earnings page. You will see your amount available for transfer. Enter the amount you wish to transfer and click the Continue button. You will need to enter your password when prompted for your Amazon Payments account. Once logged in, follow the steps to transfer the funds to your bank account.
If this is the first time you have transferred money to a bank account, you will need to enter your bank account information. Follow the instructions to enter your bank routing and account numbers in the form provided.
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