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A crowdsourcing platform is shutting down. Crowdsourcing, in plain terms, means routing work to a large pool of people rather than processing it through an automated system.
Amazon's Mechanical Turk ran on that model from 2005 onward. Jeff Bezos once called the service "artificial artificial intelligence," and the label was an honest one.
What the name actually described The original Mechanical Turk was an 18th-century chess machine that appeared to operate entirely on its own. A human sat concealed inside, making every move.
Amazon named its service after that machine, and the parallel held. From the outside, Mechanical Turk delivered results that looked like software output.
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