The world's most dire problems, such as climate change and global
conflicts, could be solved using a combination of human and computer
intelligence, researchers say.
Human outperform machines at many tasks, such as recognizing images and
thinking creatively. So, with the help of computers, crowds of people
could collaborate in networks to achieve what neither people nor
computers could do alone, a growing field known as human computation.
"What's most exciting to me about human computation is that it gives us
hope today," said Pietro Michelucci, director of the Human Computation
Institute in Fairfax, Virginia. Although many people have pinned both
their hopes on artificial intelligence (AI), or super-intelligent machines, human computation provides an alternate view, he said. Read More
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