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  1. Today I learned that LibraryThing has had a 'CoverGuess' image tagging game since 2010
    librarything.com/topic/350799

    And that the 3.2 million tags gathered now have an application in feeding an AI search
    librarything.com/topic/349719

    #crowdsourcing #HumanComputation #AI #books #libraries

  2. Thought I'd post an (academic) #introduction. :D I am an Assistant Professor at the University of #Groningen, with current research focus on #largscale #networkanalysis (#networkscience) working within the #InformationSystems Group; I previously worked on #humancomputation (don't like the term), #socialcomputing, #distributedsystems at #tuwien. Interested in socio-tech. issues, including #ethics #privacy, tech #policy
    #academicsofmastodon #complexnetworks #complexsystems
    @academicchatter

  3. With DALL·E 2 openai.com/dall-e-2/ a circle can be closed. Here is my idea for a new game: you let create an image and the other person has to guess your text.

    Why is it a circle? Because many label images were created with a similar gaming approach, see the google tech talk of 2006 to estimate the fast progress in all these image AI topics. yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=dtFr

    Both are worth looking :)
    Amazing times, though a bit scary: you cannot trust what you see any more.