Tuesday, 17 September 2002
Who's augmenting who?
Interesting Wired story on whether machines are augmenting us, or we're augmenting them:
"Last year, Yahoo! wanted to block porn spambots from obtaining free email accounts. It created a brilliant but simple reverse Turing test: To get an account, you have to identify a randomly generated word that's been slightly stretched and distorted. This proves you're a human, not a robot. Machines are terrible at visual recognition tasks – sure enough, the “picture test” blocked out the spambots."
Of course, the spammers found a solution.
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