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Remember the horror movie The Fly, in which a brilliant scientist comes up with an groundbreaking technology -- only for his good intentions to head south when he accidentally gets genetically spliced with a housefly, turning him into a hideous monster? That's kind of the vibe we get hearing about a project that aims to teach an AI to hold a polite conversation by feeding it message threads from Reddit. Nonetheless, that's the working theory held by researchers at OpenAI, the nonprofit Artificial Intelligence company backed by Silicon Valley heavy-hitters like Elon Musk, which lists its mission as "to build safe AI, and ensure AI's benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible." All kidding aside, the impressive-sounding project focuses on creating a deep learning neural network able to build up a "probabilistic understanding" of conversation, and maybe even construct enough of a language model to be able to communicate itself. To help with this, OpenAI is employing a DGX-1 supercomputer developed by Nvidia.

Increasingly social networks are being used for citizen science, where members of the public contribute knowledge to scientific endeavours. Tasks can be presented and solved using human computation, termed groupsourcing, with users benefiting from community tuition and experts gaining knowledge from the crowd. This paper gives details of a prototype that utilises groupsourcing to solve image classification tasks, to support social learning and to facilitate knowledge discovery in the domain of marine biology.