Saturday, May 14, 2011

Turning Crowds into Computers

At the Workshop on Crowdsurfing and Human Computation, researchers spent their time determining whether or not the processing units in computers can be human brains rather than silicon chips.

The discussion focused on the fact that computers can do a plethora of things that the human brain can also, only faster....while the complex level of thought the human brain itself undergoes when solving problems, for example, can sometimes be worth the time it takes.

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