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Behind the façade: How crowdsourcing will bring videogames to life
August 4, 2010… as an industry dominated by the conquests of mythological lone programmers, now relies more on the collective efforts of a studio. While the lone programmers still exist, the colossal amount of work required to create modern games means their influence is much diminished.
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Today the rich heritage of big names like Will Wright (Populous, SimCity, The Sims), Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario Bros, Zelda), Jeff Minter (Tempest, Gridrunner) or Rob Gilbert (Monkey …
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ai, cloud, crowdsourcing, E3, façade, human intelligence, Kinect, milo, Peter Molyneux, Rob Gilbert, Shigeru Miyamoto, TedGlobal, Will Wright | 5 CommentsWe, Robot: A Vision of What’s to Come
December 18, 2009… Although the use of robotics in manufacturing processes and other fields is growing, artificial intelligence has not nearly progressed to the level many science fiction writers predicted. One of the key sticking points is robot vision.
While naturally the details of robot vision technologies are complicated, the bare bolts are roughly analogous to the way we ourselves see – with an eye and a brain. First, you need a camera or sensor to take in images (eye) and a unit to process the …
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cloud labor, collective intelligence, computer vision, digital outsourcing, human computation, mass collaboration, Mechanical Turk, research, robotics | Leave a commentWho will police The Police?
February 23, 2010… service to other websites.
Into The Unknown
But even Face-lators (catchy huh?) in their collective thousands may have had a problem deciphering this speech by Donald Rumsfeld. In it he mentioned “known knowns”, “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns” and confused the hell out of a lot of people – regardless of whether English was their mother tongue.
I can’t say for sure, but my guess is that our friends at CrowdFlower probably would have got the gist of it. As …
From millions of tasks to thousands of jobs: Bringing digital work to the developing world
February 1, 2012… pyramid to access the digital economy, and enabling the rest of the world to benefit from their intelligence.
Challenge participants are asked to come up with ideas for mobile phone applications that link problems that could be tackled by microwork with microworkers located in the developing world. The best ideas are awarded cash prizes of up to $20,000 and supported in various ways with a view towards their eventual realization as, for example, startup companies. The slogan of the …
Confidence tricks: can crowdsourcing keep our feet on the ground?
January 18, 2012… on individual judgment. But the potential of the crowd may take us much further.
Research into collective reasoning focuses on the concept of the wise crowd, a group which mixes experts and amateurs. In a wise crowd, laypeople are free to ask difficult questions and offer unorthodox solutions that experts may not consider. In turn, the experts are required to explain their observations and conclusions, and to be transparent in their reasoning.
United we stand
The power of the wise …
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