Designing games with a purpose
Communications of the ACMPublished 29 July 2008Open access
Luis von Ahn, Laura Dabbish
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Data generated as a side effect of game play also solves computational problems and trains AI algorithms.
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Data generated as a side effect of game play also solves computational problems and trains AI algorithms.
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