Human Computation
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a great technical talk from the pioneer of human computation.
What it is
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 by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2013 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec bemmu · 2013-04 · on “Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?”
I remember there being a better version of this, but Luis von Ahn's talk on "Human Computation" was great: [this video]
Cites rawnlq · 2015-06 · on “Duolingo Raises $45M, Now Valued at $470M”
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.
Cites alexpotato · 2019-04 · on “Launch HN: Centaur Labs (YC W19) – Labeling Medical Images at Scale”
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]