How Amazon’s Mechanical Turkers Got Squeezed Inside the Machine

How Amazon’s Mechanical Turkers Got Squeezed Inside the Machine

In this six-part series, we explore that human history of AI—how innovators, thinkers, workers, and sometimes hucksters have created algorithms that can replicate human thought and behavior (or at least appear to). His patent described a “hybrid machine/human computing arrangement,” which would break down tasks into small units, or “subtasks” and distribute them to a network of human workers. In the case of deleting duplicates, a central computer could divide Amazon’s site into small sections—say, 100 product pages for can-openers—and send the sections to human workers over the Internet.

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