12:22 PM on 05.20.2008
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Niero
I have a confession to make: I'm addicted to playing Gwap, a quintet of online games that simply task my human brain to perform menial tasks for the benefit of a computer. No, it's not an MMO (harr harr!); it's actually a Carnegie Mellon research project that turns your gameplay data into artificial intelligence that a supercomputer can crunch and then put to use in real-world applications. The concept is as brilliant as it is easy to wrap your mind around:
1. You play a game
2. Computers get smarter
3. Everyone benefits
When you log in to a game, you are partnered with a remote peer that is being presented the same tasks as as you are, whether it's finding a dog in a picture or deciding whether or not a baby moose is cuter than a fat girl's sweet 16 photos. The results are compared in a timed round, and you are rewarded extra points when you correctly guessed what the other person chose. Gwap games also include a full-blown combo system for correct answers in succession and rank/track how good of a Gwapling you are. In return, their system uses our collective responses to better perform difficult computing problems, such as identifying objects in a photograph. Not too shabby for a geeky research lab project, right?
There are five games to keep you from being productive today: ESP (a game where you guess what the other person is typing after looking at a photo), Tag a tune (steal Casey Kasem's job), Verbosity (think Pictionary with words), Squigl (trace stuff), and Matchin (guess what photo your peer likes best). Give it a shot and tell them Dtoid sent you: Gwap.com.
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let's hope it works on a mac.
:P.
Cool idea, but I'm with King3vbo on this one, weirdly enough. No Skynet future please.
@Cowzilla - I've been trying to clarify really confusing games of Verbosity and no one will chat with me.
1. Humans play simple games.
2. Computers get smarter.
3. ???
4. Robot.
you start to really feel connected to your partner, even though you're only communicating through the guesses. This is really fun! Thanks for sharing.
I wonder....
I got a +12 chain in a row my first time in, and then for every game after that my partner was a retard with bad taste.
I bet it's actually a blind study with the AI already playing some of the games with us.