This is an interesting article on things that people can do better than computers, like judge beauty, and how that can be exploited to build better computer services.
For Certain Tasks, the Cortex Still Beats the CPU
This is “human computation,” the art of using massive groups of networked human minds to solve problems that computers cannot. Ask a machine to point to a picture of a bird or pick out a particular voice in a crowd, and it usually fails. But even the most dim-witted human can do this easily. Von Ahn has realized that our normal view of the human-computer relationship can be inverted. Most of us assume computers make people smarter. He sees people as a way to make computers smarter.
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