Freelance workers, known informally as turkers, race to grab and do the tasks, providing what Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, once called “artificial artificial intelligence.” "Most tasks pay a dime or less, and there is a daily churn of tasks that pay only a penny. And the weird thing is that workers — mostly American workers — will do them, for many different reasons. People turk to save for a motorcycle. They turk to buy insulin. They turk to pay off debt or pass the time profitably while on the clock at a boring job."