Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI
The Next Web1h ago1 newsroom
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September. The marketplace is 21 years old, and it paid people a few cents at a time to do work that computers could not. Jeff Bezos once called it “artificial artificial intelligence”. A banner across the MTurk homepage sets out the decision. “We regularly evaluate our programs, tools, […] This story continues…