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Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a web service that lets you assign tasks to hu...  ...s in exchange for payments. It is named after The Turk , a chess playing automaton made by Wolfgang von K...  ...curious to see what exactly the Amazon Mechanical Turk looks like, so naturally he...