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Hello. Well, let me start
by asking you a question:

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How many of you had to fill out
some sort of web form

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where you've been asked to read
a distorted sequence of characters?

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How many of you found it really annoying?

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Okay, outstanding. So I invented that.

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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That thing is called a CAPTCHA.

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And it is there to make sure
the entity filling out the form

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is actually a human and not
some sort of computer program

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that was written to submit the form
millions and millions of times.

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The reason it works is because humans

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have no trouble reading
these squiggly characters,

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whereas computer programs
simply can't do it as well yet.

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For example, when you're buying tickets
online for attending a concert

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the reason you have to type

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these distorted characters is to prevent

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scalpers from writing a program

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that can buy millions of tickets,
two at a time.

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CAPTCHAs are used all over the Internet.

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And since they're used so often,

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a lot of times the precise sequence
of random characters shown to the user

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is not so fortunate.

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So this is an example from Yahoo.

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The random characters that happened

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to be shown to the user were W, A, I, T

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which spells a word.

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But the best part is the message
that the Yahoo help desk

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got about 20 minutes later.

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["Help! I've been waiting
for over 20 minutes,

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and nothing happens."]
(Laughter)

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This of course, is not as bad
as this poor person.

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[REBOOT]
(Laughter)

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I can tell funny stories
about captchas for hours

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but since I cannot do that

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let me tell you about a project
that we did afterwards

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which is sort of the next
evolution of CAPTCHA.

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We call it reCAPTCHA,

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which is something that
we started at the University,

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and then we turned it
into a startup company.

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And then Google acquired this company.

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so, all what I'm going to say
for the next 5 minutes

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is owned by Google.

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So, please, do not spread the word.

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So let me tell you
how this project started.

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It turns out that about 200 million
CAPTCHAs are typed everyday.

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When I first heard this,
I was quite proud of myself.

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I thought, "look at the impact
that my research has had."

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But then I started feeling bad.

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They are not only obnoxious, but also

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each time you type a CAPTCHA

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essentially you waste
10 seconds of your time.

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And if you multiply that
by 200 million you get that

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humanity as a whole is wasting
about 500,000 hours every day

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typing these annoying CAPTCHAs.

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So then I started feeling bad.

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And then I started thinking,
is there any way

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we can use this effort for something
that is good for humanity?

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While you're typing a CAPTCHA,
during those 10 seconds,

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your brain is doing something amazing.

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Your brain is doing something
that computers cannot yet do.

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So can we get you to do some

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useful work to mankind?

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Putting it differently,

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is there some humongous problem
that we cannot yet get

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computers to solve,

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yet we can split into tiny chunks

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such that each time
somebody solves a CAPTCHA

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they solve a little bit of this problem?

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The answer to that is "yes,"
and this is what we're doing now.

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So what you may not know is that
nowadays while you're typing a CAPTCHA,

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not only are you authenticating
yourself as a human,

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but in addition you're actually
helping us to digitize books.

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So let me explain how this works.

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So there's a lot of projects out there
trying to digitize the existing books.

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Google is digitizing books.

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Amazon, with the Kindle,
is digitizing books.

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The way this works
is you start with an old book.

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You've seen those things, right?

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Like a book?

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(Laughter)

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So you start with a book,
and then you scan it.

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Now scanning a book is like taking
a digital photograph of every page.

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The next step in the process
is that the computer

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needs to be able to decipher
all of the words in this image.

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Now the problem is that for older books
that were written several years ago

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the computer cannot recognize
a lot of the words

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because the ink has faded
and the pages have turned yellow.

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Thus the words look a bit different

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and the computer cannot recognize them.

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So, for books that were written
more than 50 years ago,

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the computer cannot recognize
about 30 percent of the words.

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So what we're doing now

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is we're taking all of the words
that the computer cannot recognize

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and we're getting people to read them
for us while they're typing

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a CAPTCHA on the Internet.

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So, the next time you type a CAPTCHA -

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(Applause)

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these words that you're typing

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are actually words that are coming
from books that are being digitized

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that the computer could not recognize.

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And now the reason we have
two words nowadays instead of one

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is because we need to verify
if the answer is correct.

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Because one of the words is such
that the system knows what it was,

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and the other is a word that
the system just got out of a book,

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it didn't know what it was,
and it's presented to you.

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We're going to ask you to type both words.

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And we won't tell you which one's which.

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And if you type the correct word

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for the one for which the system
already knows the answer,

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it assumes you are human,

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and it also gets some confidence
that you typed the other word correctly.

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And if we repeat this process
to like 10 different people

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and all of them agree
on what the new word is,

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we are very confident
that this new word

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was accurately digitized.

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So this is how the system works.

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The good thing is that
it has been very successful.

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We're digitizing about
100 million words a day,

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which is the equivalent of
about two million books a year.

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And this is all being done
one word at a time

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by just people typing CAPTCHAs
on the Internet.

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Now, since we're doing
so many words per day,

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funny things can happen.

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And this is especially true
because now we're giving people

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two randomly chosen English words
next to each other.

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So funny things can happen.

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For example, we presented this word.

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It's the word "Christians";
there's nothing wrong with it.

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But if you present it along with
another randomly chosen word,

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bad things can happen.

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So we get this.
[bad Christians]

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(Laughter)

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It's quite funny.

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But it's even worse,
because the particular website

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where we showed this

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actually happened to be called
The Embassy of the Kingdom of God.

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(Laughter)

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Oops!

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Here's another really bad one.

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American politician, JohnEdwards.com
[Damn liberal]

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(Laughter)

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So we keep on insulting people everyday.

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Now, we're not just insulting people.

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Quite often,
interesting things can happen.

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So this actually has given rise
to an Internet meme

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that millions of people
have participated in,

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which is called CAPTCHA art.

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Here's how it works.

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Imagine you're using the
Internet and you see a CAPTCHA

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that you think is somewhat peculiar,

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like this CAPTCHA.

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Then what you're supposed to do
is you take a screen shot of it.

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Then of course,
you fill out the CAPTCHA

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because you help us
digitize a book, please.

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But then, first you take a screen shot,

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and then you draw something
that is related to it, like this.

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[invisible toaster]

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(Laughter)

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It's just an example of CAPTCHA art.

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There are tens of thousands of these.
Some of them are interesting.

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Some of them are very cute.
[clenched it!]

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Some of them are funnier.

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[stoned founders]
(Laughter)

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This is my favorite number
of this whole project: 900 millions.

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This is the number of distinct people

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that have helped us digitize
at least one word

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out of a book through reCAPTCHA.

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A little over 10%
of the world's population,

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has helped digitize human knowledge.

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And it is numbers like these
that motivate my research agenda.

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So the question that motivates
my research is the following:

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If you look at humanity's
large-scale achievements,

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these really big things that humanity
has gotten together

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like building the pyramids of Egypt
or the Panama Canal

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or putting a man on the Moon --

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there is a curious fact about them,

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and it is that they were all done
with about the same number of people.

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They were all done with
about 100,000 people.

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We can ask ourselves
why is that all of them used

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about the same number of people.

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The reason for that is because,
before the Internet,

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coordinating more than
100,000 people was impossible.

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But now with the Internet,
I've just shown you a project

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where we've coordinated
900 million people.

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So the question that
motivates my research is,

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if we can put a man on the Moon
with 100,000 people,

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what can we do with
100 million people?

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Based on this question,
we've been working on a lot of projects.

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I will not tell you
about all we have done.

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But, let me tell you about
one that we are working on now.

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We've been working on this
for about two years now.

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And we're going to launch it
in about 30 days.

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It's called Duolingo.

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This project started asking
the following question:

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How can we get 100 million people

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translating the Web into
every major language for free?

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So there's a lot of things
to say about this question.

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First of all, translating the Web.

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Right now it is partitioned
into multiple languages.

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A large fraction of it is in English.

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If you don't know any English,
you can't access it.

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But large fractions are
in other languages,

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and if you don't know the languages
you can't access them.

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I would like to translate all
of the Web into every major language.

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Now some of you may say,

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why can't we use computers to translate?

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Machine translation nowadays is starting
to translate some sentences.

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Well the problem with that is that

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it's not yet good enough,

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and it probably won't be
for the next 20 to 30 years.

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So let me show you an example of something

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that was translated by a machine.

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Actually it was a forum
about programming questions.

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It was a programming question
translated from Japanese

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into English and from then into Spanish,
though my translation is good.

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The other one is bad. You'll see.

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So I'll just let you read.

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This person starts apologizing for
the machine translation.

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Indeed, this was done with
the best translation program

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from Japanese into English.

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Remember, it's a question
about computer programming.

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So here you are the preamble
to the question.

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[At often, the goat-time install
a error is vomit.] (Laughter)

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Then comes the first part of the question.

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[How many times like the wind, a pole,
and the dragon?] (Laughter)

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Then comes my favorite part
of the question.

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[This insult to father's stones?]
(Laughter)

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And then comes my favorite
part of the whole thing.

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[Please apologize for your stupidity.
There are a many thank you.] (Laughter)

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Okay, so computer translation
isn't yet good enough.

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We need people to translate.

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So what I want is to get
100 million people

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translating the Web into
every major language for free.

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I couldn't afford paying
100 million people for the job,

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so I want them to do it for free.

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Now if this is what you want to do,

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you pretty quickly realize
you're going to run into

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two pretty big obstacles,
needing to be hurdled.

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The first one is a lack of bilinguals.

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So I don't even know if there
exists 100 million people out there

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using the Web who are bilingual
enough to help us translate.

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That's a big problem.

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The other problem is a lack of motivation.

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How are we going to motivate people
to actually translate the Web for free?

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After thinking about this for months,

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we realized there's actually a way

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to solve both these problems
with the same solution.

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We realized that there's a way
to kill two birds with one stone.

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And that is to transform
language translation

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into something that millions
of people want to do,

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and that also helps with
the problem of lack of bilinguals,

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and that is language education.

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It turns out there are millions of people
wanting to learn other languages.

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Today there are over 1.2 billion people
learning a foreign language.

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And it's not just because
they're being forced to do so in school.

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For example, in the United States alone,
there are over

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5 million people who have paid
over $500 for software

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to learn a new language.

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Many people want to learn a new language.

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So what we've been working on
for the last two years

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is a new website called Duolingo,

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where the basic idea is
people learn a new language

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for free, while simultaneously
translating the Web.

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And so they're learning by doing.

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So this is how it works.

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The way this works is whenever
you're a just a beginner,

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we give you very,
very simple sentences on the Web.

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And if you don't know a word
we'll tell you what each word means

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though you are asked
to "translate this sentence".

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And it turns out that it really works.

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Even though people know nothing
of the language

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if we explain what each word means,
they'll be able to translate it.

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As you see how other people translate

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the same sentence,
you start learning the language.

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And as you get more and more advanced,

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we give you more and more
complex sentences to translate.

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This is how
you are going to help us translate.

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This is how the site works.

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We're mostly done building it,

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and now we're testing it.

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When we started working on this

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I didn't think it could work, really.

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But it turns out that
it works, indeed. It's amazing.

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First, people really
can learn a language with it.

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In this case we are testing it with people

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knowing English,
wanting to learn Spanish,

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and vice versa.

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So people really do learn a language.

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And they learn it about as well

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as the leading language learning software,

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which is very good,
but perhaps more surprisingly,

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the translations that we get from people
using the site are very good.

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They are as accurate as those

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of professional language translators.

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Now of course,
we play a trick here and it is that

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we combine the translations
of multiple beginners, several students,

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and choose the best.

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But it turns out
that that best translation

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is as good as those of
professional language translators.

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Now even though we're combining
multiple translations,

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another good thing about Duolingo is that

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the site actually
can translate pretty fast.

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So let me show you an estimate
of how fast we could translate.

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If we wanted to translate Wikipedia
from English into Spanish --

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of course, Wikipedia exists in Spanish
but is much smaller

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than its English counterpart,
about 20 percent of it --

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If we wanted to translate Wikipedia
from English into Spanish using Duolingo

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we could do it in five weeks
with 100,000 active users

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learning English with Duolingo.

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And we could do it in about 80 hours
with a million active users.

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Since all the projects that
my group has worked on so far

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have gotten millions of users,

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we're hopeful that we'll be able
to translate the Web for free.

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We haven't yet launched Duolingo,

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(Applause)

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I'd like to leave you with --

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we haven't yet launched Duolingo
we plan to do so in 30 days.

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If you visit Duolingo.com, you can sign up

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to be part of our private beta
in about 30 days.

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Help us.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)