Online games: more than just games
by frank ~ May 24th, 2008. Filed under: News, Online games, Technology.
Carnegie Melon University researchers hope that gamers visiting their new website, www.gwap.com, can help make computers smarter. How? By playing online games.
For example, in the game “Tag a tune”, humans add tags to describe whether audio clips are “sad”, and so on. This helps computers learn to do stuff better, like image and audio clip searches.
Using online games like “Tag a tune”, the researchers hope to study further how humans can help computers do things they (the computers) aren’t very good at.
