Human computation

This talk is about harnessing human brainpower to solve problems that computers cannot. Although computers have advanced dramatically over the last 50 years, they still do not possess basic conceptual intelligence or perceptual capabilities that most humans take for granted. By leveraging human abil...

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Published in2009 46th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference pp. 418 - 419
Main Author von Ahn, Luis
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY, USA ACM 26.07.2009
IEEE
SeriesACM Conferences
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Computational intelligence
Computer displays
Computer science
Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence
Distributed computing
Distributed Knowledge Acquisition
Games With A Purpose
Human Computation
Humans
Image Labeling
Internet
Online Games
Optical character recognition software
Permission
Web sites
World Wide Web
distributed knowledge acquisition
image labeling
online games
human computation
games with a purpose
world wide web
CAPTCHAs
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Summary:This talk is about harnessing human brainpower to solve problems that computers cannot. Although computers have advanced dramatically over the last 50 years, they still do not possess basic conceptual intelligence or perceptual capabilities that most humans take for granted. By leveraging human abilities in a novel way, I solve large-scale computational problems and collect data to teach computers basic human talents. To this end, I treat human brains as processors in a distributed system, each performing a small part of a massive computation.
ISBN:9781605584973
1605584975
ISSN:0738-100X
DOI:10.1145/1629911.1630023