“The Amazon story is a stark reminder that ‘artificial intelligence’ still often requires armies of human babysitters to work properly. Amazon even has an entire business unit known as Amazon Turk devoted to helping other companies do just that — train and operate AI systems. Thousands of freelancers around the world count themselves as ‘MTurkers,’ and the unit is named after the story of the Mechanical Turk, an 18th-century chess-playing contraption that was secretly controlled by a man hiding inside.” Bloomberg (Gift Article): Amazon’s AI Stores Seemed Too Magical. And They Were. “The 1,000 contractors in India working on the company’s Just Walk Out technology offer a stark reminder that AI isn’t always what it seems.”