bemmuApr 2013Strongly recommends
I remember there being a better version of this, but Luis von Ahn's talk on "Human Computation" was great: ▶ this video
in “Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?” · View on HN
Human Computation
Human Computation on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2013–2019.
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A 2006 Google TechTalk in which Luis von Ahn introduces human computation, using people's effort to solve problems like image recognition that computers cannot yet handle. It covers games with a purpose and related ideas such as CAPTCHAs.
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Recommended as a great technical talk from the pioneer of human computation.
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alexpotatoApr 2019Cites it
I would think you could go a long way with just creating an ESP style game: [link] In this talk, the creator also goes into how they created a version to actually locate the key points in the image: ▶ this video
in “Launch HN: Centaur Labs (YC W19) – Labeling Medical Images at Scale” · View on HN
rawnlqJun 2015Cites it
Duolingo is started by Luis von Ahn who invented reCAPTCHA. He pioneered the field of human computation: ▶ this video . He can monetize this in a similar way. Crowd sourced translation service where the more advanced language learners translate books or something. It will be higher quality than google translate for sure.
in “Duolingo Raises $45M, Now Valued at $470M” · View on HN
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Computer vision, speech & NLPAI & data (other)Futurism & technology and societycrowdsourcingluis von ahncaptchagames with a purposeimage labeling