Re: Which programmable task can be done faster by a human than by a computer?

Claudio Grondi wrote:

use a human for processing the input data than a computer (please
skip here from consideration any tasks where the computation algorithm
for processing of the input data is not exactly known, so it can't be
programmed to achieve same result as when the task is given to a
human).

Your terms are unfair IMHO. The exact reason why humans are and will always be ahead of computers wrt computing power is that they are the first to solve problems not foreseen earlier. Once the algorithm is known and at least implementable on a Turing-type machine, then even if it's NP-complete or whatever hardness class, computers will solve them faster than us.
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