Many learning games can claim to help an individual become more adept at learning a concept or task, but "gwap" is one of the few games that claim "You're helping the world become a better place" just by playing it. Gwap is actually an acronym for "Games with a purpose." Gwap claims that "By playing our games, you're training computers to solve problems for humans all over the world."
"Let's take the ESP Game for example. You and a partner see the same image and are asked to type in a tag for it. When you agree on a tag, you move on and are awarded points. After just a minute of play, you've agreed on six or seven tags. We record those six or seven tags and associate them with the images. Everyone benefits! Now a search engine will have a better idea of what's in those images."
Therse games were created by Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, whose aim is to entice humans into playing simple games that will help computers get smarter. It is the brainchild of computer scientist Luis von Ahn.
“We have games that can help improve Internet image and audio searches, enhance artificial intelligence and teach computers to see,” he explains. “But that shouldn’t matter to the players because it turns out these games are super fun.”
The reason for this? Humans can still solve many problems that computers haven’t yet figured out. The thinking is that Gwap may help bridge that gap.
You play most of the games in teams of two and you and your partner choose which picture is better and you’ve both got to agree. You can’t talk to each other during the game which makes it hard. This game, although seemingly just for fun and giggles, garners a lot of useful data which can then be used to improve search, security, or simply problem solving.
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