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Luis von Ahn - father of noteworthy projects like the ESP Game (a.k.a. Google's Image Labeler. Radar post) and reCAPTCHA (Radar post) - has launched Games with a Purpose, in short GWAP.

GWAP and the new games - Tag a tune, Squigl, Verbosity, and Matchin,\nputs von Ahn and his team at Carnegie Mellon by a wide margin at the\nforefront of tapping into human cycles to do jobs that computers only\ncan solve poorly or not at all.

\nAt FOO Camp last year von Ahn listed the main motivation for his\nprojects as \"I hate paying people to do things.\" Beyond the obvious\nchuckle such a statement releases, there is a truth hidden to it that\nAmazon's Mechanical Turk is no doubt feeling and that every HR\ndepartment knows: people only motivated by money often do a terrible\njob.