{"id":1031509,"date":"2026-08-27T11:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031509"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:32:44","slug":"amazon-shuts-down-mechanical-turk-why-jeff-bezos-once-called-it-artificial-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/amazon-shuts-down-mechanical-turk-why-jeff-bezos-once-called-it-artificial-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon shuts down Mechanical Turk: Why Jeff Bezos once called it \u2018artificial artificial intelligence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Amazon is now shutting down its more than two-decade-old crowdsourced work platform, Mechanical Turk, the company said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The crowdsourced work platform will shut down on 30 September, Mechanical Turk wrote in a notice posted on its website, adding, &#8220;We regularly evaluate our programs, tools and services and make adjustments based on those assessments.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Amazon is now shutting down its more than two-decade-old crowdsourced work platform, Mechanical Turk, the company said on Tuesday. The crowdsourced work platform will shut down on 30 September, Mechanical Turk wrote in a notice posted on its website, adding, &#8220;We regularly evaluate our programs, tools and services and make adjustments based on those assessments.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031510,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031509\/revisions\/1031510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}