Indeed, a case for Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a service that is shamelessly and deliberately named after its historical model. The principle has not changed after all this time: poorly paid people do the work to make it look as if machines could perform the task - as if it were an unprecedented technological breakthrough, as if it were some kind of magic.

It is a very popular thing among all the companies that claim that "artificial intelligence" was the future.

Edit: However, this does not appear to be a demonstration of autonomous technology.

Edit edit: Apparently, this was actually intended as a demonstration of autonomous technology - any source other than Reddit would be more credible.

Mecha Türk intensifies