• DocumentCode
    3598565
  • Title

    Human computation

  • Author

    Von Ahn, Luis

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Sci. Dept., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    418
  • Lastpage
    419
  • Abstract
    This talk is about harnessing human brainpower to solve problems that computers cannot. Although computers have advanced dramatically over the last 50 years, they still do not possess basic conceptual intelligence or perceptual capabilities that most humans take for granted. By leveraging human abilities in a novel way, I solve large-scale computational problems and collect data to teach computers basic human talents. To this end, I treat human brains as processors in a distributed system, each performing a small part of a massive computation.
  • Keywords
    artificial intelligence; conceptual intelligence; human brainpower; human computation; Books; Computational intelligence; Computer displays; Computer science; Distributed computing; Humans; Internet; Optical character recognition software; Permission; Web sites; CAPTCHAs; Distributed Knowledge Acquisition; Games With A Purpose; Human Computation; Image Labeling; Online Games; World Wide Web;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Design Automation Conference, 2009. DAC '09. 46th ACM/IEEE
  • ISSN
    0738-100X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-6055-8497-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5227025