Monday, 29 August 2011

Building Crowds of Humans Into Software

By using crowdsourcing for difficult tasks such as understanding speech or images, the software could enable smarter apps.

Enabling software to punt its toughest tasks to humans should result in smarter mobile apps and other programs, say the founders of the newly launched company MobileWorks. The startup makes it possible for programmers to build human intelligence into their software using crowdsourcing—the practice of parceling out relatively small parts of a larger problem to many different people over the Web.



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