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Games With A Purpose Help With Tasks That Tax Computers

Posted by timothy on from the because-computers-are-dum dept.

Falkkin writes "Luis von Ahn and his team at Carnegie Mellon University have launched GWAP, a new web site for 'Games With A Purpose.' By playing these online games, humans help provide data for problems that are hard for computers to solve, such as computer vision and sound classification. Slashdot has previously covered other human computation projects by Dr. von Ahn, including the ESP Game and reCAPTCHA. The new web site contains a re-vamping of the ESP Game as well as four completely new games." (Falkkin also points to an AP story on GWAP and to coverage at the BBC.)

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  1. Everyone benefits? by FrozenFOXX · · Score: 5, Funny

    "You play the games. Computers get smarter. Everyone benefits!"

    Yeah, that's EXACTLY the kind of line I'd expect Skynet to use.

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    1. Re:Everyone benefits? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Welcome to the Skynet SecurityCam matching game!

      To win, please select which of these pictures is Sarah Connor. Now!

    2. Re:Everyone benefits? by Theoboley · · Score: 2, Funny

      Have you seen this boy? *shows picture of John Connor*

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  2. shoulda said that as AC by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Funny

    I really just can't be bothered to register. Said cstdenis, login number 1118589.
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  3. Re:Never fails by trolltalk.com · · Score: 2, Funny

    Geez, site has only been online a little while and already freakin' griefers have moved in. Last 3 games of ESP I played had dipshits that purposely gave answers that didn't even come close to describing the pictures. One idiot just kept guessing "YoMama". Fuckers.

    What did you expect. Games are entertainment. Some people's idea of entertainment is f*cking with the system.

    Only the naive YoMama! would expect YoMama to result in YoMama clean set of YoMama. The YoMama way YoMama you YoMama get YoMama results YoMama if YoMama paid YoMama to YoMama AND YoSista tied to performance.

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