After the amazing statistically improbable phrases, amazon is at it again, this time releasing the web’s craziest concept of the year: Mechanical Turk.

The principle is simple: Artificial Artificial Intelligence. Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. An example: A9 (amazon’s lousy search engine) is looking for people to identify the best photo of the business that are listed. A computer can’t do it. Humans can, and get paid 0.03$ per action.

The fun part is, all this process integrates with the Amazon API, and you can actually connect real people to a computer program. Twisted. Amazing. I wonder who is the crazy person behind such an idea.

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