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Behind the façade: How crowdsourcing will bring videogames to life
August 4, 2010… with sufficient algorithmic behaviors to allow for every possible situation.
The cloud will add human intelligence to the recipe, allowing avatars like Milo to be imbued with the experience of millions of brains working together. Milo’s children will learn day by day from human inputs (becoming, de facto, semantic expert systems and developing at the same time their own unique personality.
As these simulacra develop they will redefine our relationships with computers, and might even …
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ai, cloud, crowdsourcing, E3, façade, human intelligence, Kinect, milo, Peter Molyneux, Rob Gilbert, Shigeru Miyamoto, TedGlobal, Will Wright | 5 CommentsSome work is born digital: from gold farmers to game masters
June 1, 2010 Share
Much has been said about the influence of information technology on work, and yet little of it has turned out to be overstated. The introduction of personal computers and local area networks to offices around the developed world in the late 1970s started a revolution in processes, which later translated to clear and measurable advances in productivity . The rapid …
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captcha, crowdsourcing, digital labor, human computation, Mechanical Turk, richard heeks, world of warcraft | 3 CommentsNew media and the British election: Don’t stand too close to the bleeding edge
May 10, 2010 Share
When I think of what defines a person as cool, a number of attributes spring to mind. At school the cool kids possessed an elusive quality that was hard to pinpoint. Looking back, it was actually something quite obvious like an upcoming birthday party you wanted to be invited to. Or the latest brand of footwear.
Out of the playground things have changed, but not …
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Barack Obama, British election, crowdsourcing, Facebook, human computation, new media, Twitter | 1 CommentCracking the code: The crowd vs the virus
April 25, 2012… infectious virus named Trojan-Spy.0485/Malware-Cryptor.Win32.Inject.gen.2 (or Stuxnet if you’re human). Experts at the big antivirus companies concluded that Stuxnet was probably created by the US or Israeli intelligence services, and was designed to cripple the Iranian nuclear program.
This blog will self destruct in ten seconds
Of course, the US and Israel responded with the traditional mantra of the intelligence community: deny all knowledge. The story seemed to go away. The idea of …
Kony 2012: the crowd to the rescue?
March 28, 2012… on posters of Kony actually the best way to achieve the film’s goal of ‘changing the course of human history?’ Could the crowd be used more effectively?
Wanted, dead or alive
For all the success of the Kony 2012 campaign, a cynical crowdsourcing evangelist (not me) might point out that Kony 2012 is really more a large-scale awareness campaign than a truly innovative use of the crowd.
The campaign’s main purpose is to make Kony, and his terrible crimes, famous. It does this with a …
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