mechanical turk
Chess-playing hoax machine
A mechanical turk is a system that appears automated but actually relies on hidden human labor.
The term comes from an 18th-century chess-playing "automaton" that concealed a human operator inside.
Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform applies the concept deliberately—routing tasks to human workers when software can't handle them: We used Mechanical Turk to label training data for the algorithm.
- automatonSelf-moving mechanical device
- chessStrategic board game
- amazonFormidable warlike woman
- crowdsourcingGathering input from masses
- workersPeople doing jobs
microtasks · illusion · hoax · labeling · gig · gig economy · data · annotation · artificial · artificial intelligence · deception · puppet · hidden · human · machine · Wolfgang · 18th century · eighteenth
- automatonsautomaton, automata, clockwork, wind-up toy, android
- roboticsrobot, android, humanoid, robotic arm, servo
mechanical turkneural network
Interconnected computational nodes mimicking cognition
deep learning · AlphaGo · GPT · expert system
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