opus6: unfinished article about mturk - tgtimes - The Gopher Times HTML git clone git://bitreich.org/tgtimes git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/tgtimes DIR Log DIR Files DIR Refs DIR Tags DIR README --- DIR commit c372b864abd1afbb36b0f223fd6540dc049b1139 DIR parent 1de7da4455a4cfad4f55ee68730e502991f30d28 HTML Author: Josuah Demangeon <me@josuah.net> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 01:37:45 +0200 opus6: unfinished article about mturk Diffstat: A opus6/article-tgtimes-amazon-mturkā¦ | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) --- DIR diff --git a/opus6/article-tgtimes-amazon-mturk.mw b/opus6/article-tgtimes-amazon-mturk.mw @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +.SH tgtimes +The Modern Mechanical Turk +. +.PP +In 1770, long before the exploitation of electricity, a machine was built in the pretention of being able to play Chess. +This machine named Mechanical Turk was nothing more than a moving puppet actuated by a small human, such as a child. +A child who is good at chess, that is! +. +.PP +Actuating levers, the operator would make the puppet move, fooling the audience that technical advances occasionally make use of black magic. +. +.PP + +. +.PP +I wish I would be +and given the very large scale at which it is deployed, it means that you, web user, have experienced the Google, and later Cloudflare "captcha". +Testing whether an user is an individual or a bot would, at the opposite, explaining machines what is a bus, a tracktor, a crosswalk, or a traffic light. +. +.PP +Here is your Great Technological Singularity for the greatest common entertainment: +Nothing more than a moving puppet, actuated by humans. +.FS +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk +.FE +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk