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Recommended as a great technical talk from the pioneer of human computation.
A 2006 Google TechTalk in which Luis von Ahn introduces human computation, using people's effort to solve problems like image recognition that computers cannot yet handle. It covers games with a purpose and related ideas such as CAPTCHAs.
“Luis von Ahn's talk on "Human Computation" was great” (HN, 2013)
Duolingo is started by Luis von Ahn who invented reCAPTCHA. He pioneered the field of human computation: [this video] . He can monetize this in a similar way. Crowd sourced translation service where the more advanced language learners translate books or something. It will be higher quality than google translate for sure.
I would think you could go a long way with just creating an ESP style game: [link] In this talk, the creator also goes into how they created a version to actually locate the key points in the image: [this video]
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