Archive for September 2nd, 2006

Great TechTalk video presentation about Human Computation by Luis von Ahn, on July 26, 2006.

Quotes/topics:

  • 9 billion human-hours of solitare were played in 2003
  • To build Empire State Building - was spent 7 Million human-hours (6.8 hours of solitare player’s time)
  • To build Panama canal - was spent 20 Million human-hours (less then a day of solitare player’s time)
  • Humans can solve some problems, computers can solve some problems, together they cat create … MATRIX image
  • Computer vision is one of the hardest problems humans can solve easily

Projects described during presentation:

P.S. Google Image Labler is a project based on ESP game. Luis also has a link to Phetch game on his site that helps to create image descriptions for the blind surfers.

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