Mechanical Turk(MT)

Coincidentally, i read an interview with Sharon Chiarella who is the  Vice President of Amazon.com. Thanks to Nelson Zhang, we've got very interesting details about Mechanical Turk.

As i learned;
Actually for MT, as the concept of MT  contains many fields, it deserves to be a new blog for MT.

A mentined interview, some of the responses are taken into my consideration.
Question is the meaning of MT.

So the question as follows :

What’s the meaning and significance behind the name “Mechanical Turk?”
So the response as follows :
"The name Mechanical Turk is a historical reference to an 18th century chess-playing device. The original Mechanical Turk was powered by a human chess player who was hidden inside the actual device. Typically, a human makes a request of a computer, and the computer does the computation of the task. But Mechanical Turk inverts that.

The computer has a task that is easy for a human but extraordinarily hard for the
computer. So instead of calling a computer service to perform the function, it calls a human. This is reflected in both our service name and our use of the phrase “artificial, artificial intelligence.”"