Human Computation
GoogleTalksArchive1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2013–2019
talk · intermediate · evergreen · 2013–2019 on HN
A 2006 Google TechTalk in which Luis von Ahn introduces human computation, using people's effort to solve problems like image recognition that computers cannot yet handle. It covers games with a purpose and related ideas such as CAPTCHAs.
Recommended as a great technical talk from the pioneer of human computation.
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3 comments from Hacker News
I remember there being a better version of this, but Luis von Ahn's talk on "Human Computation" was great: ▶ this video
I would think you could go a long way with just creating an ESP style game: link In this talk, the creator also goes into how they created a version to actually locate the key points in the image: ▶ this video
Duolingo is started by Luis von Ahn who invented reCAPTCHA. He pioneered the field of human computation: ▶ this video . He can monetize this in a similar way. Crowd sourced translation service where the more advanced language learners translate books or something. It will be higher quality than google translate for sure.