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Amazon's Mechanical Turk Service Now on Life Support as It Stops Accepting New Users
Summary
- Amazon Web Services Inc.
- is no longer accepting new customers for its decades-old Mechanical Turk service, in what is likely a death knell for the pioneering crowdsourcing marketplace.
- First launched in 2005, Mechanical Turk predates Amazon's public cloud infrastructure business by a year.
Why It Matters
Expands physical compute availability or datacenter capability to handle next-generation training runs.
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