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i     1 .SH tgtimes	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     2 The Modern Mechanical Turk	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     3 .2C 34v	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     4 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     5 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     6 In 1770, long before the exploitation of electricity, a machine was built in the pretention of being able to play Chess.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     7 This machine named Mechanical Turk was nothing more than a moving puppet actuated by a small human, such as a child.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     8 A child who is good at chess, that is!	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     9 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    10 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    11 Actuating levers, the operator would make the puppet move, fooling the audience that technical advances occasionally make use of black magic.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    12 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    13 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    14 Amazon called a software platform Amazon Mechanical Turk.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    15 .FS	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    17 .FE	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    18 It offers management for harvesting food for machine learning: human description of images, videos, products, and other kind of canned thoughts that machine learning can make use of to build models.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    19 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    20 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    21 Uber for Cyber.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    22 Human translators shouting at machines the language they got whispered through their life.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    23 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    24 .IP "Ghostworker. Noun."	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    25 1. Worker performing activity that will only be appreciated as data feeding an algorhithm.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    26 2. Worker with no access to who it provide work to, both employer and client are invisible to him.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    27 .FS	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    28 https://www.ghostwork.org/	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    29 .FE	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    30 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    31 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    32 given the very large scale at which these data-harvesting structures are deployed, it means that you, web user, have experienced the Google and Cloudflare "captcha" block window.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    33 That window preventing you to submit a form unless you click on all buses, tracktors, crosswalks, traffic lights... to verify that you are indeed a human and not a bot trying to access the website.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    34 Instead of prooving its belonging to the mankind, at the opposite, the user is explaining to machines what is a bus, a tracktor, a crosswalk, or a traffic light.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    35 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    36 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    37 Here is your Great Technological Singularity for the greatest common entertainment:	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    38 Nothing more than a moving puppet, actuated by humans, barely even paid for it, if paid at all...	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    39 .FS	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    41 .FE	Err	bitreich.org	70
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