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albert_e | 27 days ago

The future is now

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zvqcMMV6Zcr|27 days ago

Amazon's Mechanical Turk exists since 2005, so we are 20 years in the future

albert_e|27 days ago

MechanicalTurk is for desk jobs and for tasks that originate as ideas in a human mind -- even if they get routed via an API.

Here we are talking about AI agents coming up with a set of tasks as part of their thinking/reasoning step ..and when some of those tasks are real world physical tasks, assign them to a willing human being.

Those tasks wont necessarily be desk jobs or knowledge work.

It could be say -- go chop a tree, or go wave a protest banner, or go flip the open/close sign on my shopfront, or go and preach crustafarianism.

oytis|27 days ago

Mechanical Turk was for humans to rent a human, which is not a new idea