A Very Cool Experiment in Human Computing
We’re seeing the reversal of a trend. In years past, machine intelligence has been touted as the solution to all of life’s problems. Now, we’re seeing a resurgence of human intelligence- not AI, but HI being used more and more for tasks normally delegated to computers. Amazon has attempted to leverage human intelligence with limited success through its Mechanical Turk, but the service never really took off. But now, a new crowdsourcing, human computing application is poised to capture our collective imagination and demonstrate the true potential of human-powered computing. It looks like this: Read more »
