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Hmmmm. Nice move Google. But I also remember that a machine passed the Turing test. And I don't like the sound of these two news together. Not because I'm worried about you, but because I'm worried about the websites I run as a dev.

Moreover, I'm not sure if most people know this, but reCaptcha was supposed to be converting ancient text to digital text[I read that once on quora, I'm not really sure if it's entirely true, but I guess it is]. So now, I can be less proud of not contributing to conversion of ancient texts to digital books.

And, I'd love you if you make the thing open-source, Google...



ha yeah that was definitely the original purpose/project of reCAPTCHA.... but I think shortly after the google purchase, the AI got so good at reading garbled ancient texts that G allowed it to move on to other things..like house numbers.


House numbers are actually the easier version, you got them if reCAPTCHA already knew you're probably human. After screwing it up a few times, it punts you back into the general category and you get two words again.


.. or human tracking?




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