Play with a purpose

Ray Bilodeau, Worcester. MA — Sun, 18 May 2008 13:53:31 GMT

So these scientists want us to play their games so they can perfect valuable routines to sell to rich companies at high prices and which will improve their ability to get and keep our attention and sell us more products, making sure it's really us on the other end, or at least making sure the contact is a human, until the Turing test becomes obsolete itself worth a Nobel Prize. And we do all that work/play for free, with no hope of participating in the huge income stream our "play" will create. And thousands are willing to do this! Barnum was right, of course.

Play with a purpose

Jeff Caplan, Orlando, FL — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:42:01 GMT

Hey Ray...try reading?

"The data from the game play will be freely shared with other researchers working on artificial-intelligence tools as well as the psychology of human word and image recognition, von Ahn said."

Play with a purpose

Ray Bilodeau — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:16:40 GMT

Hey Jeff. I read it. When I see something that says the information will NOT be shared with anyone unless there is a written agreement not to commercialize the results, that is, all results and data will be publicly available to anyone promising not to capitalize on the data, I'll change my mind. Until then, my observations stand.

Play with a purpose

Jon, Colchester, Essex — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:03:54 GMT

Essex University have recently released a collaborative game similar to the von Ahn work that aims to collect judgements on anaphoric coreference. It’s not as inherently interesting a task as tagging images or music, however the results could be just as useful for text summarisation and search engines.

You can play the game and find out more information at http://www.phrasedetectives.org