Had no idea what human.io did until I read this comment. Then I was "Oh, wow. That's a good idea."

Yes, exactly.

You could do all sorts of things. How do I wrap it up into one sentence without marketing speak?

I love pud's example. Come up with 2-3 more scenarios like those and put them on the home page.

Edit to add: "a Mechanical Turk for tasks not easily done at a computer" isn't a bad description either.

> Come up with 2-3 more scenarios like those and...

...ask users to vote on them using human.io

<3. Wish I could come up with a short term use case for human.io now :(

An army of real people ready to gather data, create new experiences, or anything else you can dream up -- at the press of a button.

This is a nice one.

Thanks. You're welcome to it or any part of it.

As a developer, I would love to see what the API looks like and some sample scripting:

  humans = init({ count:100, gender:male });

  task_navigate   = task({ type:navigate, uri:{latitude:123, longitude:456} });
  task_photograph = task({ type:photograph });

  for (human in humans) {
    human->task(task_navigate);
    human->task(task_photograph);
  }

I'd like to see what the actual API ends up looking like but then again I am not sure if you intend this to be fully scripted or not. Building a user-friendly API and then translating the instruction into user-friendly instructions for the humans who execute will be the primary challenge IMO.

http://human.io/docs perhaps?

How might you use human.io to answer that?

Unartificial intelligence automation for the masses