The Newest Artificial Intelligence Computing Tool: People

Source: University of Southern California
Date: June 29, 2007
The Newest Artificial Intelligence Computing Tool: People

Science Daily — A USC Information Sciences Institute researcher thinks she has found a new source of artificial intelligence computing power to solve difficult IT problems of information classification, reliability, and meaning.

That tool, according to ISI computer scientist Kristina Lerman, is people, human intelligence at work on the social web, the network of blogs, bookmark, photo and video- sharing sites, and other meeting places now involving hundreds of thousands of individuals daily, recording observations and sharing opinions and information.

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via Science Daily