http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/captcha-busted/
[Vicarious are Dileep George, Hawkin's ex-man, no?] CAPTCHA creator Luis van Ahn, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is not convinced. He sent ScienceNOW this defiant message: "This is the 50th time somebody claims this. I don’t really get how they think this is news :) If their program is actually a break, we can simply add more distortion or switch to image-based CAPTCHAs." And the prog. does indeed fail its first tests. P.S. "Breaking CAPTCHA wasn’t the goal, says Phoenix. “It was just a sanity check. We believe that higher level intelligences are all built on the somatosensory system. So that’s why we started with vision.” The company plans to hook up this visual system to robots. The benchmark then will be, for example, “Preparing a meal in an arbitrary kitchen.” The GO TO THE KITCHEN Woz Test meme is catching. On 28 October 2013 14:02, tintner michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2303350/google-updates-recaptcha-tool-to-beat-the-spambots > > > On 28 October 2013 10:44, tintner michael <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I should add that I agree to some extent with the conclusion: >> >> "We should be careful not to underestimate the significance of Vicarious >> crossing this milestone," adding that the company is "at the forefront of >> building the first truly intelligent machines." >> >> The ability to solve the problem Hofstadter identified - of recognizing >>> endlessly diversifying A fonts (the essence of the CAPTCHA problem) - >>> would constitute a major and first breakthrough towards AGI. >> >> >> I will put my arse on the line, and say no algo will ever do this. A >> different, new computational approach is required >> >> >> On 28 October 2013 10:27, tintner michael <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/captcha-defeated-by-computer-software_n_4168784.html >>> >>> [I bet it *doesn't* work remotely that well - >>> >>> Vicarious said its algorithm achieves success rates of 90 to 97 percent >>> ] >>> >> >> > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
