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Any time you classify traffic lights for a captcha you are doing just that, you are being asked to do something by a robot because it is not so confident about their own results. We are just starting to be the cheap labor of robots.

No, we're being used by other humans because they are not confident in their robots' results.

At the end there is always a human. But those images were selected by robots, no human was involved. It was the robot's 'decision'. At least that is my point of view.

Amazon is trying hard to replace its foremen / women with computers. Maybe AWS will develop a nifty web service that allows all of us to shift people management to software.

What about when an algorithm shows someone an ad to make them buy something? News feed algorithms control some peoples thinking imo.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BdW71kNANln/

Isn't that basically what the Mechanical Turk is?