Web search+Computer vision → Death of CAPTCHA

AltaVista employees file a patent application for a “human or program” check: to add a website to the search engine, you have to read a randomly distorted string — patents.google.com ↗

Cybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure

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• Internet & infrastructure / Luis von Ahn: “Each time you solve a CAPTCHA, you basically waste 10 seconds of your time. See, the thing is, during those 10 seconds you're doing something amazing. You're doing something that computers cannot yet do. What we're going to do now is we're going to get people to help us digitize books while they're solving CAPTCHAs.”

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