Article: CMU online game will be used to help teach computers to see

CMU online game will be used to help teach computers to see. This is pretty cool. Basically, it's a game where one person tries to get another player across the internet to describe a picture, but the person describing doesn't get to see all of the picture at once.

The real point is to get enough pictures of objects at different angles with descriptions so that a computer can look at them all and learn what objects are by sight.

The only problem I see with this approach is that they'd need billions of images to make this worthwhile. For example, if you assume our eyes take in approximately 30 frames per second, at 60 seconds a minute, 60 minutes an hour, and 8 hours a day (average for a baby in the first year of their life), then in a single day, a baby sees 864,000 impressions of objects in the environment. Multiply that by 365 and you get 315 million impressions in the first year of life. So, you can imagine how many images are going to be necessary to teach a computer to do the same thing. I'd say, use video instead of static images.