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Aug
18
2008
Another Positive Use for the Computer to Human Interface Posted on 23:21, August 18th, 2008 by StrangelyIn a recent post, http://strangelyperfect.tv/629/hannys-voorwerp-shows-what-ordinary-people-can-do/, I mentioned the power that can be gleaned from combining massive computer power and the pattern recognition capabilities of 3 million years of evolution on the human brain/eye system. Now another use has just surfaced… Many web-using people will be used to filling in forms with the deciphering of some partially obscurred text as part of the process. A common one is called “Captcha“. This same technique is being combined with a burgeoning project to digitize many old and new printed works. This project uses OCR software to scan and digitize the books – but it makes mistakes. These mistakes are farmed out by the reCAPTCHA service so that people’s eyes are used to fix the mistakes. It’s a statistical compounding process so like SETI and the galaxy zoo project, multiple similar answers mount up to prove the “correctness” of the required answer. It’s absolutely fantastic and a really positive use of computers in the service of mankind. Amazon Related:
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[...] the basic Captcha priciple is showing really good humanitarian use as I mentioned here, another-positive-use-for-the-computer-to-human-interface/. Ironic really – one does bad, one does good. Tags: ddos attack, Captcha, [...]
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