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Mostly just toys.
If you can't rely on them more (not 'just as much,' more) than the people who would do whatever the task is, you can't use them for any important task, and you aren't going to find a lot of tasks which are simultaneously necessary and yet unimportant enough that we can tolerate rolling nat 1s on the probability machine all the time.