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AWS is shutting down Mechanical Turk, which let humans beat AI at certain work tasks

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AWS is shutting down Mechanical Turk, which let humans beat AI at certain work tasks
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Amazon will permanently close Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026Mechanical Turk once connected more than 500,000 workers with paid tasksWorkers completed image tagging, transcription, surveys, and other routine assignmentsAmazon plans to permanently close Mechanical Turk, its long-running platform for outsourcing small tasks to human workers.Launched in 2005, the platform enabled companies to hire people to complete small, routine tasks that computers could not easily handle at the time.Jeff

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