Industry · 2 days ago
Amazon stops onboarding new Turk customers
Amazon has officially ceased accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk platform. The service, once a hub for human-powered tasks, faces declining relevance as automated AI systems and Amazon SageMaker increasingly handle data labeling and complex inputs. This move signals a significant decline for the gig-economy marketplace that relied on human input to perform what was once termed 'artificial artificial intelligence.'
First reported by gizmodo.com · developing for 6 days · 3 sourcesgizmodo.comAmazon's 'Artificial Artificial Intelligence' Is Being Eaten by AItechcrunch.comAmazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turktheregister.comAmazon's Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it
Why it matters
The transition marks a definitive shift in the labor market as automated AI systems replace human workers in micro-tasking roles.
Context
Mechanical Turk was launched in 2005 to perform tasks that computers were then unable to do efficiently.