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Amazon to shut down Mechanical Turk, the 'artificial artificial intelligence' service

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Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing platform launched in 2005 for human tasks too difficult for computers. The service, once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' by Jeff Bezos, will be discontinued.

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  1. 2026-08-26 00:34 · CNBC Technology
    Amazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting down

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