The Great A.I. Punt: Amazon's Mechanical Turk

I am betting discussion of Amazon's "Mechanical Turk" will immediately go to Bloglines #1.

The Bezosians have come up with something very interesting. An API that farms out A.I. tasks to human beings in exchange for micropayments. Does that photo have a human in it?

photoContainsHuman = callMechanicalTurk(photo);

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