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We, Robot: A Vision of What’s to Come
December 18, 2009… image-processing part of the equation where we start to see difficulties and the huge gulf between human and robot vision.
Humans – with certain relations of mine excepted – effortlessly filter out non-pertinent information. For example, you needn’t re-analyze every last detail in your visual field (consciously noting the color of the curtains, for example) in order to realize that your wife changed the TV channel while you were in the bathroom. You just notice that the room is pretty …
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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… at afternoon tea.
This question is the focus of David Alan Grier’s book When Computers Were Human which outlines the pre-information age story of “human computers” doing calculations by hand – not just the straightforward office-worker’s calculation of how many days left until Friday; but complicated, multifaceted problems such as those required for astronomy, cartography, navigation, and (unsurprisingly) warfare. This required teams of people manually crunching numbers to …
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computer, David Alan Grier, human computation, Manhattan Project, mass collaboration, Richard Feynman | Leave a commentMicrotask: we love the forms you hate
May 11, 2011… try “quick sorting” a full filing cabinet). Humankind has sent robots to Mars, mapped the human genome and even (in just 11 years) tracked down Osama Bin Laden. So why is the paperless office still such an impossible dream?
As you probably know by now, here at Microtask we take productivity seriously. We spent many long days and sleepless nights wrestling with this data-based dilemma. Finally we emerged, red-eyed and over-caffeinated but victorious. Ladies and gentlemen, we …
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crowd, crowdsourcing, digitizing, Filing cabinet, human, iPad, iPhone, Mars, Microsoft Excel, microtask forms, microwork, Osama Bin Laden, paper forms, Paperless office, structured data | Leave a comment2011: a crowded year
May 4, 2011… me CEO”) Ville Miettinen. Check out Crowdconvention.com for more details.
HCOMP 2011
The Human Computation Workshop is this year’s third go-to industry event. HCOMP 2011 kicks off around August 8th in San Francisco. Primarily a research conference, organizers include crowdsourcing pioneer (and certified genius) Luis von Ahn and (in)famous Mechanical Turk blogger Panagiotis Ipeirotis. HCOMP 2011 (which is part of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference) …
Human Flesh Search Engines: The Most Dangerous Game
August 30, 2010… or The Ring (or looked after a two year old ) knows, nothing is scarier than cute kids.
The Human Flesh Search Engine (HFS) sounds awfully sinister. But far from being a deadly disease or a machine from the Saw series, it is simply a term used to describe searches that are conducted with the help of humans (as opposed to the ones carried out through a search engine like Google).
A tiger in the grass?
A good demonstration of the power of HFS is now known as the South China …
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