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Dangerous Ideas is lynx-friendly, at least partially. <BR><BR>
The following is only the teaser, but if you ask, I'll take the time
to transcribe the slides into a more text friendly version. Just send
mail to gremio at ai dot mit dot edu.
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<H3> <a href="http://www.ai.mit.edu/lab/dangerous-ideas/">The Seminar on Dangerous Ideas</a> </H3>
<H3> 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, 2002 </H3>
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Many AI problems involve tedious components. There are libraries of
knowledge to be compiled, corpuses to be tagged, long training sessions
with learning machines, and so forth. Such resources are critical to our
success, but building them can be dull and time-consuming. What if we could
subcontract most of that work out to thousands of volunteers on the
internet?
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There are many challenges in turning to the general public for help. We
cannot expect them to take the time to learn formal languages or understand
how to program or debug complex systems. Our systems need to interact with
users in familiar languages, decompose hard problems into "bite-sized"
chunks that the average person could solve quickly, and be fun and engaging
to attract enough volunteers.
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One side effect of this approach will be to bring AI out of the laboratory
and into the everyday world, familiarizing the general public with the work
that we are doing, and perhaps in the long run help build public support
for our research.
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