Artificial intelligence quietly relies on workers earning $2 per hour

Amazon Mechanical Turk, described as "artificial artificial intelligence", uses low-paid workers to complete mini-tasks that AI can't do on its own. In the late 18th Century, an automaton chess master known as the'Mechanical Turk' toured Europe and the US. Designed in 1770 by the inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen, the machine appeared to be able to defeat any human player. It later turned out the Turk was in fact a mechanical illusion. A puppet dressed in oriental garb, it concealed under its fez and robes a human chess master.