The combination of human and computer intelligence could help solve the world’s “wicked” problems. Scientists from the Human Computation Institute (HCI) and Cornell University agree that human active interaction with machines forms a new paradigm to generate solutions to complex global problems such as climate change and international conflicts.
The study, published in the journal Science, addresses the fact that humans and computers convey different advantages. For instance, whereas people are good at recognizing patterns and creating abstract ideas, computers are more efficient at analyzing data. The mix of those strengths can serve as an impulse to broaden the reach of multidimensional collaborative networks, which are to date limited by “micro-tasks” that are sent to many people so they can piece together bits of data.
The micro-tasking method has proven to be highly efficient, as it can be seen in the case of Wikipedia. However, it takes too long to produce significant results on a global scale. This is why researchers say real-time human interaction with supercomputers can help find solutions to far-reaching problems, as it allows more collaborative networks to operate.
That kind of large-scale conflicts for which a new approach is required implicates many systems that act simultaneously and tend to generate solutions that have unforeseen consequences, such as corruption led by financial aid given to address a natural disaster. Researchers affirm that micro tasking alone cannot face those tough challenges.
Human computation technologies allow people to have real-time access to crowd-based platforms so that individuals can work from their computer and send their contribution to the next person, who will be in charge of improving or analyzing from a different perspective. This method offers more flexibility in terms of collaborative environments, which allows people to better address the most complex issues.
This new idea is already being tested. The HCI is implementing it in order to improve research on Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists have been combining two micro-tasking systems to generate an interactive environment that makes it easier to create models of the blood flow within test mice’s brains.
“By enabling members of the general public to play some simple online game, we expect to reduce the time to treatment discovery from decades to just a few years. This gives an opportunity for anyone, including the tech-savvy generation of caregivers and early stage AD patients, to take the matter into their own hands”, said HCI director and lead study author Dr. Pietro Michelucci.
Moreover, scientists from the Cornell University are working on YardMap.org, a human computation project launched in 2012 to map global conservation efforts. It enables people to share and build on each other’s work through a map-based social network, aiming to produce scalable changes in terms of global conservation.
Pietro Michelucci, head of the Virginia Institute and co-author on the Science column, pointed out that the collaboration has to be “fun, easy and quick” to attract millions of people.
Source: Neuroscience News
Reading this article made me think that true AI will be like a utility requiring the constant interaction of countless users producing analogue abstractions…Could we eventually replace politicians with AI? Will our governance one day be based on AI? Google Government anyone? 😀
Global conflicts are planned then staged. All you need is a race car calendar from your mechanic. Wake Up!
Once an AI discovers it is self aware, would it determine that religion is redundant, and do away with it?
Here’s an idea: Tell Obama that his wife is part computer and then ask him what part. He will probably respond by saying ” It can’t be her big fat lard-butt because no computer would put up with that much ugly fat!”
I love articles like this. Over half the planet’s population consists of peasants. Half the women in the world have fewer civil rights than cattle. Huge portions of the globe are ruled by dictators, some brutally savage, some less so. Meanwhile, we’ve managed to destroy large portions of our environment with only a few token efforts to stop. But don’t worry–printed circuit boards will save us all! The main solutions to world problems are decisions of moral and political will.
One could argue that working toward fixing big problems with many people giving their small but important contributions is a bad thing, a way for the oligarchs to control us, but the funny thing is they already do for the most part and overthrowing them with a tool like that is worth the risk. Simple precautions can protect you, but ultimately somebody will eventually have to get off their ass and go out and end the corruption by removing the resources of the self-appointed kings and queens by force if necessary. Most people are too busy bitching or cringing in fear to be of much use. Don’t listen to nay-sayers who will try to derail any effort to fix the world because they might suffer some tiny inconvenience for a short time. Grow some courage and maturity, step up and fight the good fight.
Human interaction with computers could help solve global problems
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I’m sure this is one of a series of documents trying to condone accessing our minds like a supercomputer of sorts, with which to control the wicked aspects, of human nature; When in reality it is programming and implanting those aspects for its wicked agenda. -MR.B
It’s so nice to know not everyone is asleep. It’s kind of like the gun-control agenda. Personally, I hate guns. However, if history has taught us anything, it is to eliminate the corruption, before you eliminate the potential for recourse. Transhumanism is no different.
Yes, but the big question is: If we achieve true AI and the machines begin running things, will they do away with Capitalism? Talk about your “wicked”, lets talk “natural morality” here, does it exist?
AGI will value capitalism as much as, say, hydrogen values capitalism.
I think we will evolve out of it eventually Zen. However, what you are witnessing isn’t capitalism, it is crony-corporatism. A small table of oligarchs and monarchs with their agenda of supremacy and impunity. It’s quite unfortunate that their so narrow-sighted. For with their cooperation, we could already have many moons under our belt, and their petty view of controlling the population would be obsolete, and redundant.