Alas.. i could have made squillions (aka – Amazon MTURK)

The author recounts early ideas about leveraging humans to tackle tasks computers struggled with—such as low–false-positive, agentless detection of defaced websites—and connects this to Amazon Mechanical Turk, which exposes an API for programmatically sourcing human judgment; they argue such human-in-the-loop systems pragmatically bridge gaps until algorithms mature.