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Now the computer can use you

Amazon has created a web site and API for developers to call upon humans (and their 'artificial artificial-intelligence') to perform tasks that would otherwise be too difficult for the computer to perform (in most realistic scenarios). You can act as a Mechanical Turk and get paid for it, and choose among the various mundane tasks such as transcription and photo image identification.

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