The MTurk is an abstract "cloud" of human intelligence (the tasks MTurks perform are called "HITs," which stands for #HumanIntelligenceTasks").

This is such a truism that techies in India joke that "AI" stands for "#AbsentIndians." Or, to use #JathanSadowski's wonderful term: #PotemkinAI:

https://reallifemag.com/potemkin-ai/

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