Who knew that the human mind is still superior to the computer.

One would believe that in today’s world, computer intelligence would be very advanced and almost anything can be accurately carried out by computers. However, some actions that human’s find easy such as identifying images, are very difficult for a computer to recognize.

The computers are only as smart as the people who build them. It has greatly improved our lives, and we can shop online, check our bank statements, perform complicated calculations, and it has made it easier and cheaper to communicate with people from around the world.

However, there is still room for expansion, and as programmers and IT developers continue on their path to making more intelligent systems, we could get better functionality from the Internet.

In a way, there is some benefit to having computers being unable to recognize images or carry out certain tasks, as it can rule out Bots. Bots have become very common on the Internet and they can be a nuisance.

There are several websites that pay people to perform tasks, that a computer would find very difficult to do, such as “Mechanical Turk” and “ChaCha.com.” I was requested to carry out tasks on the Internet such as surveys. However it did not pay very well, and it offered coupons or free gifts where you would have to spend a certain amount and then you would receive a discount or a free item. I felt this was not a big incentive enough for me, and the amount of time it took and the reward I was getting did not match up.

Therefore, from that particular experience, I became skeptical about doing these online tasks to earn money. Perhaps sites such as Mechanical Turk or ChaCha could be more financially rewarding since they pay you in monetary terms instead of coupons or vouchers. One would have to weigh the opportunity cost of doing such tasks and the amount of time they have on their hands to consider performing those online tasks.