How do you teach a computer to categorize and label photographs and other images? Identifying objects in a picture is easy for a person, but very difficult for a machine. A graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University has a found a way to solve the problem by garnering the help of hundreds of thousands of human volunteers. How? He’s turned the challenge into two fun online games. Check them out at ESP Game and Peekaboom.
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