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    what does all that Human Intelligence Task mean? Finding pizza parlours?

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    Well sort of. As far as I can tell, you get piad to do things computers cannot do or they find difficult.

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    yes, but the pay seems really low.
    you get a few cents for potentially 15-30 minutes of work, adding up to altogether less than 1 dollar per hour...
    It might be fun, I guess, but it's not something that you can make a living of :)
    Therapy helps, but screaming obscenities is cheaper.

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    I thought this thread would be about a LeftEyeNine robot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dâriûsh
    I thought this thread would be about a LeftEyeNine robot.
    On the other hand, I imagine that LeftEyeNine can think of a host of tasks that computers are not up to...
    The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we’re half dead trying to get a paragraph right. - Paul Scott

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