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Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk program pays people to work at a computer doing things that people do better than computers. One job involved taking images of storefronts and matching them up to businesses listed in a database.
The original “Mechanical Turk” as a sideshow machine that it’s inventor claimed could play chess against a live opponent. The […]

According to Business Week, here’s Jeff Bezos’ plan:

Bezos wants Amazon to run your business, at least the messy technical and logistical parts of it, using those same technologies and operations that power his $10 billion online store. In the process, Bezos aims to transform Amazon into a kind of 21st century digital utility. It’s as […]