"...Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a platform where freelance workers sign up to complete small tasks like labeling photos or taking surveys, sometimes for cents per job, has gone further. The website’s name comes from a machine that seemed to automate a chess match but actually had a person hidden inside. It’s designed to keep the worker hidden. Unlike Uber and Handy, customers don’t even know names or see photos of the workers who sign up for their tasks—workers are only known by their user ID numbers."
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[...In this case, it is computers getting help from people to do tasks.” As Tim O’Reilly, a computer book publisher and tech industry figure, puts it on his blog, old dreams of artificial intelligence are “being replaced by this new model, in which we are creating more intelligent systems by using humans as components of the application.”]
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