Fauxtomation

History of Technology

Kate Crawford's term for the illusion of automation concealing human labor. From the 1770 Mechanical Turk to Amazon's modern Mechanical Turk service, supposedly intelligent systems rely on hidden human workers.

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Unit 16: artificial intelligence

History of Technology

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