Fun games to put human brain power to good use.

I was watching a little video on google video on human computation, and while he was on the subject of it being very easy for humans to see what is in a picture, but very hard for computers, he wanted to come up with a way to label images on the web accurately and quickly, plus for free. Here was what he mentioned.

http://espgame.org/

In my opinion, it is fun, and it is labeling images on the web quickly. The more people that play, the better. After playing 3 games, I have about 4000 points! This game was a great idea! I just wanted to spread the word a little more. If we can get 5000 people playing at a time (the number of people playing some games on yahoo! games) we could label all the images on the web (not counting the new ones coming up every day) in 2 months! That would be pretty cool.

EDIT: I also just found out about Peekaboom, which is directly related to the ESP game. Peekaboom takes images from the ESP game, and takes a keyword, then tells a player to highlight the part of the image, and the other player has to guess the keyword based on what they see as highlighted. I know that it is hard to know what I am saying, so just play it to find out what I mean.

Oh, yeah, and the link is http://www.peekaboom.org/

ok i’m playing it

Looks like someone figured out how to get other people to do the work for him/her! Great idea!

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1916781,00.asp

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=turking&btnG=Search

It’s called “turking”. By yourself you can get about one cent per human scan,
but turn it into a game and get thousands of people “playing”, heh…kudos to whoever came up with that one! I’m jealous! :D:D