Luis von Ahn launches 'Games with a Purpose'(Luis von Ahn 启动“Games with a Purpose”)
2008/05/14
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Luis von Ahn - father of noteworthy projects like the ESP Game (a.k.a. Google's Image Labeler. Radar post) and reCAPTCHA (Radar post) - has launched Games with a Purpose, in short GWAP. GWAP and the new games - Tag a tune, Squigl, Verbosity, and Matchin, gives von Ahn and his team at Carnegie Mellon by a wide margin at the forefront of tapping into human cycles to do jobs that computers only can solve poorly or not at all. While the ESP Game was licensed to Google as the Image Labeler, von Ahn writes by email that "the data [from GWAP] will be publicly available in bulk to everybody." My colleagues at Polar Rose will be happy to hear that, as am I sure everyone else in this domain will. So go spend 10 minutes having fun at GWAP and "help the world become a better place" as they put it themselves. ps. von Ahn's Tech Talk at Google on Human Computation is a classic worth viewing if you haven't already. |
Luis von Ahn——开创了很多引人注目的项目，包括ESP Game（也就是Google的Image Labeler。Radar Post）和reCAPTCHA(Radar Post)——已经启动了“Games with a Purpose”，简称GWAP。 GWAP和这几个新游戏——标记音乐、Squigl、Verbosity以及Matchin让Ahn和他在卡内基梅隆的团队在最前沿大展拳脚，用人力来完成那些计算机做不了或者做不好的工作。在去年FOO Camp上von Ahn讲他做这些项目的初衷就是“我痛恨付费让人去做事情。”除了笑声之外这里还隐藏着一个真理（Amaozon的Mechanical Turk无疑会有体会，而且所有人力资源部门也会理解）：只为钱做事的人通常是做不好工作的。 ESP Game授权给Google作为Image Labeler时von Ahn在邮件中写道“GWAP得到的数据将大批提供给所有人用。”我在Polar Rose的同事会非常喜欢这一点而且我确定这一领域里的每个人也会喜欢。 去花10分钟玩一玩GWAP就可以像von Ahn所说的那样“使这个世界变得更美好”。 还有，von Ahn在Google人力计算上的讲话非常值得一读。 |