“In the future we’re all going to become gofers for computers.” – says ZDNet’s Larry Dignan on the new Amazon patent for a “Hybrid machine/human computing arrangement.”
Nick Carr describes it as a cybernetic mind-meld a’la Mechanical Turk.
The patent covers “a hybrid machine/human computing arrangement which advantageously involves humans to assist a computer to solve particular tasks, allowing the computer to solve the tasks more efficiently.”
Humans assisting computers, not the other way around.
This ain’t no Turk anymore Nick. It’s The Borg.
We Will Be Assimilated. Resistance is Futile.
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