From CNET: Google has a formidable artificial intelligence team working on everything from photo recognition to email spam filtering. But for some tasks, it's looking for the human touch -- yours, specifically.
The online giant on Monday released a new Android app called Crowdsource that lets you contribute your own suggestions to language translation, handwriting recognition and street sign transcription.
"Each microtask takes no more than five to 10 seconds, so knock away a few the next time you find yourself with a few moments to kill," Google suggests in the app description. "Every time you use it, you know that you've made the internet a better place for your community."
It might be more accurate to say that it makes Google's internet services more useful, not the entire internet, since Google doesn't offer free access to the underlying data of Google Maps or Google Translate. But as a longtime contributor to Google services, I can attest that offering free labor to the company -- or to reviews at Yelp, TripAdvisor and Amazon -- can give you a little dopamine hit. I've benefited from others' freely donated labor countless times, and this is a way to reciprocate, even if Google shareholders benefit, too.
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