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It seems that the name of the concept this guy is looking for is: Mechanical Turk service.


The concept is actually more commonly called "human computation" (which includes stuff like digitizing books using CAPTCHAs).

It has academic journals/conferences under that name: http://hcjournal.org/ojs/index.php?journal=jhc


Not sure if MT works when some specific knowledge is needed (I think their employees know or have quick ways to find out the correct matching dress given a photo)


Yes perhaps for training the AI.




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