For now and the forseeable future, there are a great many things humans can do that computers cannot. The mental and intellectual capacity of computers through creative configurations of hardware and software may be moving forward at a decent clip, but we still may be years, decades, or perhaps even centuries away from machines that can identify the objects in a picture, discern the e-mail address of the owner of a website from other e-mails that may be present, research and report back on specific details of a subject, or transcribe a recorded interview. From the point of view of a 'Requester,' Amazon Mechanical Turk works just like some futuristic advanced artificially intelligent computer in that they can input data and receive output from the data processed in a way no modern computer could do, while having no direct dealings with the people who did the task. The website bills Amazon Mechanical Turk as a "service giv[ing] businesses access to a diverse, on-demand, scalable workforce and giv[ing] workers a selection of thousands of tasks to complete whenever it's convenient." This is "artificial artificial intelligence." I'm not going to shit you, to make any reasonable sum of money as an Amazon Mechanical Turk 'Worker' will usually require very tedious and repetitive work, and for now unless you can regularly work with superhuman speed and no distraction what you can make in an hour will probably be less than minimum wage in most places. But unlike a minimum wage job you can work as many of whichever hours a day you wish from the privacy of your home with a well-known household brand-name company. Who's never heard of Amazon.com?	You can get paid for helping the Internet work better by downoading the Gomez PEER and allowing it to monitor and report various performance characteristics of the websites of their customers from the whole spectrum of types of computers, data connections, and geographic locations. The software is small, using very little system resources, and does not reveal anything about customers or their websites to the Gomez PEER user. For Windows only, it runs on system startup and puts a relatively unobtrusive icon in Windows' system tray. The Gomez PEER is not going to make you rich, but what you do get for the amount of work definitely makes this one worth.
PyraBang is designed to bypass traditional media outlets' notion of what is important and allow the consumers of information to decide what is relevant and deserves attention. The difference is that with PyraBang you can get paid for accurately predicting what people will find interesting. PyraBang members use credits called 'bangs' to invest in the posts of others and to originate their own posts. If posts become more popular 'investors' earn more bangs which they can then cash out to real American Dollars or reinvest in new, emerging posts. Posts receive 'impressions' not only on the main PyraBang website but at the end of e-mails sent by the PyraMail service which all members have an account at, and across a network of hundreds of members' websites via the Google AdSense-like PyraWords, in addition to chat windows, audio players, and other means.

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