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Amazon achieved 'artificial artificial intelligence' with its mechanical turk service.  Users can hire people to perform simple tasks that are still hard for computers to perform, such as natural language processing and computer vision tasks.

Someone should create a coin whose primary method of distribution is a faucet based proof of work system mimicking the utility of Amazon's Mechanical Turk. 

We need to work on building more utility for coins, similar to gridcoin which lets users use their computers to solve science problems, a coin whose distribution is based on helping others solve tasks themselves would be beneficial.

Mechanical Turk website: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

There are a few inherent problems with that distribution scheme though.

1. In such a system, completed tasks are manually checked by the entity who issued it. Therefore, a distribution method like that would require a person to verify that the tasks are completed correctly and truthfully at regular intervals 24-7. Who would want to do that? The only other alternative would be to program a bot capable of doing so, but a bot that can abuse that system would be just as likely to be created.

2. A distribution like that would make a coin extremely centralized. A central entity would obviously need to regulate the kinds of tasks submitted to the network for completion, which would mean that someone can abuse the distribution method by accepting and rejecting tasks for reasons that are not compatible with the ideologies of the coin.

3. Even if all tasks to be done were immediately accepted and verified by the network -- which shouldn't be the case in a network that is concerned with NSFW matters -- it would still be open for abuse to an entity who can flood the network with tasks which that entity can easily complete by itself. Essentially, a malicious entity would be able to feed itself easy tasks to get majority of the coins.

4. That kind of distribution method does not secure the blockchain in any way. In fact, it doesn't interact with the blockchain at all. Unless you want to bloat the blockchain with an archive of every submitted and completed task, then the blockchain will not have a way of obtaining a pseudorandom yet deterministic hash for the next block. Either PoS or a new system would have to be added, which makes the implementation of the new distribution method itself pointless.