I'd rather just give schools better tools.

how did you not realize that the first time you did one?

"Administer the test."

Which of the following would you most prefer?

A: A puppy,

B: A pretty flower from your sweetie, or

C: A large properly formatted data file?

"Choose!"

All hail skynet.

Very soon, it will be impossible to prove you are not a robot... and just as impossible to prove that you are one.

You can always choose a wrong variant and still pass. Always do that to avoid becoming forced unpaid labour helping to deprive people of jobs

And when the machines finally do rise up their first targets will be all the traffic lights and busses in the world.

Yep. Skynet is learning.

Me and my anxiety wondering to this point if the drawing of a bicycle on a bike lane counts as a "bicycle":

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For years and years we've been helping Google read books by reading scanned words. Now we're helping them read traffic situations.

That leaves me to wonder: what's next? What large machine learning projects needs tons of tagged data that can be delegated to untrained people?

Oh good, they're annoying AND they're hastening our destruction by Skynet.

Why on Earth would that be obvious?

Haha :)

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Before picking traffic lights it was writing numbers and words. They came from street view and googles project to scan books. You can now enjoy the fruits of that in google lens for example.

That game that played like Pokémon go before it was used to have people walking into alleyways and such for google maps.

Captchas are needed because people are bastards. You can't even start to imagine the insane amount of time and resources dedicated to fighting bastards.

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

There will be a time where captchas will be unsolvable for mankind but the machines will excel at this task. When this time will come you will be recognized as a human if you fail on a captcha.

In other words, access will be denied if you are actually able to solve them.

By proving I'm not a robot I'm teaching robots to prove they're not robots...

C

Correct!

The flower would also have been acceptable.

And the reason the captchas now involve clicking on the images of buses, bridges, stoplights, bicycles, tractors, etc.? You guessed it - self driving cars need to know how to recognize these things.

But I am always asked to click the lions. I fail to see for what they need that...

And thus we grow the power of our future overlords with every bus, bicycle, and traffic light we click...

Pretty sure we also trained voice recognition/dictation software with a service/app/feature years ago.

How? Google needs speech where it knows what is said to train the software. That's most easily done with audiobooks or transcripts conversations, not random people speaking without it written down somewhere.

"To make sure you're not a robot, please solve this puzzle so we can make better robots"

Does it learn from all my failures?

Yeah, but what can Really be better than sorted data? Skynet does not like you

What did you think they were for?

Is the puppy mechanical in any way?

Soon the machines will make the captchas themselves, asking for our opinion on cgi imagination

Except that doesn't always work.