Human Computation
From Technical Presentations
| Presenter(s): | Luis von Ahn, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University |
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| Where: | Google Tech Talks |
| When: | July 26, 2006 |
| Topics: | Human computation, games, CAPTCHA |
| Video: | GoogleVideo |
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- 9 billion human-hours of solitare were played in 2003
- To build Empire State Building - was spent 7 Million human-hours (6.8 hours of solitare player’s time)
- To build Panama canal - was spent 20 Million human-hours (less then a day of solitare player’s time)
- Humans can solve some problems, computers can solve some problems, together they cat create … MATRIX image
- Computer vision is one of the hardest problems humans can solve easily
