Amazon shuts down Mechanical Turk: Why Jeff Bezos once called it ‘artificial artificial intelligence’
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Amazon shuts down Mechanical Turk: Why Jeff Bezos once called it ‘artificial artificial intelligence’ | Company Business News
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourced work platform, on 30 September, 2026. Launched in 2005, the service connected workers with tasks such as data labelling and surveys, but faced declining investment, growing competition, and questions over data quality.
An artifact from a bygone internet
artificial intelligence. rich pricks self projecting again?
A little long but worth the watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MUEXGaxFDA
Weirdest name choice, I’m guessing the sketchy managers were all having a big laugh about automating brown people
The origin of the name if someone doesn’t know