Poster: Minkyminky at 6/25/2006 10:18:23 AM PDT
Subject: Bliz: re The Economist (June 10-16 issue) |
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Quoted from the article Artificial Artificial Intelligence in the Technology Quarterly:
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...and a firm called Seriosity hopes to tap the collective brainpower of obsessive players of multiplayer online games such as "World of Warcraft", by getting them to perform small real-world tasks (such as sorting photographs) while playing, and paying them in the game's own currency.
I'm sure that WoW was just being used as a convenient example of a popular online game, but there's always the nagging suspicion. If I could get a blue saying I'm paranoid that'd be great.
http://thottbot.com/?sp=28873 crits you for 1337 dmg
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Poster: Tseric at 6/26/2006 8:46:03 AM PDT
Subject: Re: Bliz: re The Economist (June 10-16 issue) |
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Well, think of it this way. Remember when automation and robots were on the rise and stealing factory jobs from hard working human beings? Car manufacturers and the like began relying on machines for labor?
Maybe the pendulum is swinging back the other way when we find human beings to fill in for automated tasks.
WE TOOK THE ROBOT'S JERB!
P.S. - Dangerously Off-Topic
P.P.S. - With respects to this game and your paranoia, we do not have any plans to turn the world of Azeroth into a work farm. Thank you.
http://weallneedtherapy.ytmnd.com/
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