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When AI needs a human assistant

For years, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (mTurk) has been a kind of open secret in the tech world, a place where fledgling algorithms can hire human labor on the cheap.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/12/18661657/amazon-mturk-google-captcha-robot-ai-artificial-intelligence-mechanical-turk-humans