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Amazon Mechanical Turk
Amazon solved the AI problem. They pay a human to do the things a computer is not smart enough to do.
The idea is that you have a very complex problem that a human could solve instantly, such as: "Is there a red balon on this picture?" You make a web service call, and somewhere a human will look at the problem, and solve it to you. You program thinks that it just called a normal external service. The human gets some money for each task s/he complete. This is very cool. And very scary. I'm reminded of SF books that had a similar idea, but with pain/pleasure receptors instead of money.
Assuming that the cost of each task is 0.2$, and a human can answer 45 tasks per hour, 8 hours a day, that is 72$ a day, which translate to about 22.5 thousands of dollars a year (6 work days per week). Considering that the only thing that you need to do is to use the pattern matching part of the brain, it's really cool.
I can certainly see people who do that for a living. Consider the difference in buying power from the First World to the Third World, and you'll see that it's a pretty lucartive offer in many markets. In addition to that, it's soemthing that require no skills and no training. You can do use that to reduce unemployement for lots of areas.
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