Things humans do better than computers
Aug. 2nd, 2007 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
corvideyeThis ingenious guy invents games through which humans help make computers smarter... He also invented the captcha (those stretched letters and numbers that foil spambots--I hadn't known they had a name). Harnessing fun: what a wonderfully devious way to get work done...
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-07/ff_humancomp
"People will contribute their brainpower, but only if they're given an enjoyable, time-killing experience in exchange. Play is the unexpected glue that lashes human brains together into a global overmind. So to build a good human-computation project, you can't merely be a scientist; you also need to be a videogame designer."
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-07/ff_humancomp
"People will contribute their brainpower, but only if they're given an enjoyable, time-killing experience in exchange. Play is the unexpected glue that lashes human brains together into a global overmind. So to build a good human-computation project, you can't merely be a scientist; you also need to be a videogame designer."
