It's Rishi » HIT http://www.itsrishi.com Thought streams on the future of tech and media Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:13:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Are you bored? Make yourself useful! http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2005/11/22/are-you-bored-make-yourself-useful/ http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2005/11/22/are-you-bored-make-yourself-useful/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:31:51 +0000 Rishi http://www.itsrishi.com/archives/2005/11/22/are-you-bored-make-yourself-useful/ Teach computers “common sense”:

MIT OpenMind Commonsense Project
Learner (you don’t even need to register for this one)

  • Teach computers how to see:

    • Peekaboom – It’s a fun game and you can see the fruits of your labor using Peekasearch!

  • Earn micro-cash (in the form of Amazon credit) for performing micro-tasks:

    • Amazon Mechanical Turk

    Note: If you’re really bored and want something geek-funny, read the history of the real Mechanical Turk

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