> saw this coming from miles away. Computers are better at solving CAPTCHAs than people are

good point... it's interesting how Captcha was initially popularized as a reverse Turing test, but it's just variants of Proof of Work today.

And it seemed clever at the time for Google to leverage this for improvement of their OCR models (it was!), and makes you wonder what utility is derived from the proven "work" today.

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jonas21 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

CAPTCHAs were designed as a type of Turing Test, not a reverse Turing Test. It’s not surprising that the effectiveness of these weaker Turing Tests has collapsed now that AI can pass the real Turing Test.

	▲	Retric a minute ago \| parent \| next [-]
		LLM’s can still only pass limited Touring Tests. The longer the interaction the worse they do.
	▲	InsideOutSanta an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I'm not sure if LLMs are solving most of these captchas. There are services that employ humans to solve them for pennies per captcha.
	▲	moritzwarhier an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Oh, right, "reverse" was wrong here. I thought of "computer classifies user as computer or human" versus the inverse, while the word is about who classifies, not who's being classified. (?) I guess so

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dylan604 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

With the crosswalk, bike, motorcycle, stairs type of things, wasn't that just improving their training data?

	▲	moritzwarhier a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, for Waymo, AFAIK (I don't know for sure). The OCR thing was earlier and used for Google Books, I think. Which is also is fitting for training data, or the motto "organize all knowledge". At that time, this goal seemed really cool!