Humans pretending to be computers pretending to be humans
March 2, 2016
Fascinating article about Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: Like the steam-powered machines of the nineteenth century, digital technology is now forcing us to re-evaluate the meaning of human labour. Increasing algorithmic sophistication has meant that software is encroaching on fields that previously seemed uniquely human. Think about how seamlessly we accept self-checkout at the supermarket, or …