CAPTCHAs in the style of reCAPTCHA could drive forward technological progress in optical character recognition, but there is a problem: the research results are not shared; in fact, there is considerable market incentive NOT to share your innovation.
Perhaps contests with open source to fix this problem? One way to disburse prizes, though unclear what to do for an open source solution with many authors. We would also like prizes to solvers which do well on instances which the leading solver gets wrong.
More ideas in the style of reCAPTCHA: audio transcription (already done), image labeling (esp game), video transcription, video labeling.
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