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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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· Internet & infrastructure · one of the authors of the term CAPTCHA and the creator of reCAPTCHA, then a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in an NPR interview about the launch of reCAPTCHA

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“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.”

— Luis von Ahn, NPR, 11.06.2007 ↗

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Web search+Computer vision → Death of CAPTCHA (1998)

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