Vicarious' bot acts like a human when completing the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart -- Captcha, here used by Yahoo to verify users are human.
Monday, October 28, 2013
#ALGORITHMS: "Bots Defeat CAPTCHA Turing Test"
Now that a bot has defeated the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart--Captcha--the online world is scrambling to come up with a successor. Captcha protects thousands of web sites like Google, PayPal, Amazon from being hacked by bots by challenging them with a Turing Test that only humans can pass--until now. Vicarious aims to follow up by passing all the other popular Turing Tests--one at a time--until they have developed a robotic brain that is "almost human": R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog
Vicarious' bot acts like a human when completing the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart -- Captcha, here used by Yahoo to verify users are human.Further Reading
Vicarious' bot acts like a human when completing the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart -- Captcha, here used by Yahoo to verify users are human.
