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RentAHuman App Lets AI Agents Hire Humans

There appears to be an app called RentAHuman.ai that allows ai agents to pay humans to work for them:

1. humans make profile skills, location, rated 2. agents find humans with mcp/api & give instructions 3. humans do tasks IRL 4. humans get paid in stablecoins etc instantly

Make note of the Ava learning software from The Calcutta Chromosome, a 1995 novel by Amitav Ghosh. In the story, Ava is an artificial intelligence program that has human help in identifying objects:

Antar had met children who were like that: Why? What? When? Where? How? But children asked because they were curious; with these AVA/Iie systems it was something else - something that he could only think of as a simulated urge for self-improvement. ..

She wouldn't stop until Antar had told her everything he knew about whatever it was that she was playing with on her screen…

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