Artificial Artificial Intelligence

This concept of Artificial Artificial Intelligence has been initiated by Amazon in late 2004 and is called as Mechanical Turk. The concept is that - Humans can effectively solve certain problems with greater ease, where the Computers would falter. For eg, it would be difficult for a computer to identify a certain object in a photo whereas a human could vividly identify objects. Based on this simple truth, Amazon has started the Mechanical Turk service where people get paid to do such simple tasks. Companies would use webservices to submit their requests and people (for assurance purposes,Amazon has qualification tests depending on the task a person performs) would complete these simple tasks for a meagre amount of money. A very thoughtful idea rite ?