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10 Modern ‘Mechanical Turks’: When Automation Is Just Humans in Disguise

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Amazon’s grocery stores ditched their “Just Walk Out” technology on Tuesday, though it turned out the automated checkout system included 1,000 reviewers in India. However, this is hardly the only example of times when automation breakthroughs were truly powered by human workers in hiding – a phenomenon known as “The…

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Source: gizmodo.com