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We, Robot: A Vision of What’s to Come
December 18, 2009… 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 information, generally by analyzing every pixel (brain). An added bonus is the ability to act on the information, which is necessary …
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cloud labor, collective intelligence, computer vision, digital outsourcing, human computation, mass collaboration, Mechanical Turk, research, robotics | Leave a commentMy Wife, the Computer
December 5, 2009… their work would be used down the line.
In the modern world it seems odd that a human could be a computer – the sentence “allow me to introduce my wife; she’s a computer” would surely raise some eyebrows. A moment’s consideration of the word itself removes the oddness – to compute is to calculate, so it follows that a “computer” would correspond to “one who calculates”. So before the machines established their binary monopoly on working stuff out, there was only one way …
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computer, David Alan Grier, human computation, Manhattan Project, mass collaboration, Richard Feynman | Leave a commentMichael S Hart: a man of many words
October 18, 2011… started out, Michael Hart was dismissed as “that crazy guy who wants to put Shakespeare in a computer”. Forty years on, Project Gutenberg is a piece of crowdsourcing history. Every digitization project since – from Google Books to Digitalkoot – owes a debt to Hart’s vision and, of course, to the literary dedication of the Gutenberg crowd.
crowd, crowdsourcing, E-book, google, Google Books, Hart, iPhone, Michael Hart, microwork, Project Gutenberg, Steve Jobs | Leave a commentCrowds against the Machine: will digital workers soon be digitized?
November 18, 2010… have experimented with cutting edge A.I. –designing Google Street View, they used sophisticated computer vision systems called ConvNets to blot out faces and license plates. ConvNets are capable of “deep learning”– they modify their own parameters when fed new information (something many football fans seem to struggle with).
An artificial struggle
The sophistication of this technology is awesome, but is it good news for the crowdsourcing industry? Without ConvNets, wouldn’t …
IGI 2010: The Future is Bright
October 14, 2010… Betware, and Mindgames.
For Microtask, it was an unmissable opportunity to discuss our vision for the gaming industry – or so I told my board, when convincing them to send me. Even though they were aware of my predisposition for anything involving this crazy little volcanic island, it was an easy sell.
At Microtask, we believe that in the future, computer games will play an important role in the distributed work industry. Microwork will be seamlessly integrated into online …
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