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The Power of Crowds and "Human Computation" (vice.com)
An anonymous reader writes with this Vice article about the power of crowds when it comes to solving complex problems. "Forget artificial intelligence: The key to solving the world's most complex problems could be human-machine collaboration. That's the rallying cry of researchers who penned an editorial in the journal Science championing "human computation"—systems that combine the talents of computers and humans. The authors claim these systems could ultimately tackle issues such as climate change and geopolitical conflict, all without the existential risks posed by true AI and the technological singularity.
Authors Pietro Michelucci and Janis Dickinson imagine a system that would provide a technical framework for ideas to be shared, analyzed, and revised until the best bubble to the top; Michelucci envisages it as a 'dynamic Wikipedia.' The idea would be to develop our understanding of real-world issues online, and test potential solutions in this computational space, then applying new knowledge back in the real world so as to actually effect some change. 'Imagine something like the game SimCity, but a thousand times more detailed, and then link in real-time sensors attached to the internet,' said Michelucci. 'The more faithful that model of the real world becomes, the more accurate it would be for testing out solutions and predicting outcomes.'"
Authors Pietro Michelucci and Janis Dickinson imagine a system that would provide a technical framework for ideas to be shared, analyzed, and revised until the best bubble to the top; Michelucci envisages it as a 'dynamic Wikipedia.' The idea would be to develop our understanding of real-world issues online, and test potential solutions in this computational space, then applying new knowledge back in the real world so as to actually effect some change. 'Imagine something like the game SimCity, but a thousand times more detailed, and then link in real-time sensors attached to the internet,' said Michelucci. 'The more faithful that model of the real world becomes, the more accurate it would be for testing out solutions and predicting outcomes.'"
Airy fairy wishy-washy nonsense.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Thanks for wasting our time with an idea that has been in pop sci-fi for decades....next
Isn't that what reddit does?
Maybe you just need to post harder questions there and see what happens...
answer: more opinions than posters.
lol. linux is shit. windows is cool!
I started reading articles a few years ago about how Eve Online can be data-mined to study economic theories. It's an enormous world, millions of participants, with a completely open, organic, dynamic market economy. And you can experiment with it in ways that would be impractical or unethical in the real world.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/virtual-world-economists-on-real-economies/
Interesting.
I played the shit out of SimCity 2000. That right there is the perfect utopia world. In that place, I solved the entire world's energy crisis. Just place a waterfall on every single hill in the world, then turn every single waterfall into a hydroelectric power plant! PROBLEM SOLVED!
We have TONS of hills in the real world. All we need to do now is to take the water tool, click on those hills, then add the hydro plants on top. BAM. UNLIMITED ENERGY!
so expect them to murder everyone involved.
Just imagine, if they'd had this for The Manhattan Project.
Oh, wait...
Make it work or STFU.
real world outcomes
Unless it's fun, people aren't going to do your work for free.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
The key to solving the world's most complex problems could be human-machine collaboration.
Oh, you mean that the key to solving the world's most complex problems could be the exact same way complex problems are currently being tackled?
without the existential risks posed by true AI and the technological singularity.
No, you can still have the technological singularity caused by cyborgs, pure computers, pure biology. Certainly, having humans in control of the objectives at every step of the process eliminates some of the worst scenarios, but then again humans aren't particularly trustworthy either.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Very clever of Skynet to call it "human-machine collaboration". It will take the humans that much longer to catch on than if they went with the more accurate "machine-human collaboration".
Despair
Punched it's AIDS iz ziti the iolz e tots acker.
Well, there's your problem: Right in the first step. If the 'computational units' aren't sufficiently methodical, it will be the Boston marathon bombing all over again: Two undercover FBI agents were labelled the culprits before the crowd-sourced 'computational units' switched to a spectator who had just been murdered and an innocent brown person. They were wrong both times but their stupidity was distributed nation-wide anyway.
Sick of the fucking bullshit climate fucking bullshit. Serious. STFU.
No need for imagination. We already have that. It's called "Wikipedia".
Before electronic computers, the word computer meant a clerk who calculated stuff like business accounts, insurance tables, ballistic paths, mathematical tables, etc. They wee first males, but during WWI and WWII females predominated as computers. When electronic computers started in the 1940s, the adjective electronic prefaced computer to show it was a machine and better than people. Then after a decade or so the word computer solely meant the machine.
Some of the earliest computer programmers when women who used to work as human computers and switched over to machines. This slowed the adoption of computer science in universities because programming was seen a female trade school activity.
This would be a great thing to combine with Citizen Deliberative Councils
ourpla.net is your planet
"'Imagine something like the game SimCity, but a thousand times more detailed"
I think it is about time that the Bucky Fuller's heirs made his World Game freely available and open source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Game