The tagging phenomenon started about 3 years ago, with people putting labels on their posts in their blogs or on their pictures or videos. Now, a researcher from the University of Southern California (USC) has discovered the newest AI computing tool: people. Computer scientist Kristina Lerman thinks that ’she has found a new source of artificial intelligence computing power to solve difficult IT problems of information classification, reliability, and meaning.’ So can we expect better search tools in the future from her? Time will tell.
The tagging phenomenon started about 3 years ago, with people putting labels on their posts in their blogs or on their pictures or videos. Now, a researcher from the University of Southern California (USC) has discovered the newest AI computing tool: people. Computer scientist Kristina Lerman thinks that ’she has found a new source of [...]
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This is not really a new idea. For years, Luis von Ahn at Carnegie Mellon has used humans to solve tasks that are difficult to solve by a computer. He calls it Human Computation, see his webpage for details (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/research.html).