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Slartibartfast39 t1_iu84voq wrote

"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!"

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HDI-X13 t1_iubjoaj wrote

Is the puppy mechanical in any way?

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Landlubber77 t1_iu8d3nr wrote

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

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baldeagleNL t1_iu8os3s wrote

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?

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InappropriateTA t1_iuapth9 wrote

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

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baldeagleNL t1_iuaq3ct wrote

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.

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leopard_tights t1_iu8xulr wrote

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.

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Fetlocks_Glistening t1_iu8ahkf wrote

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

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phdoofus t1_iuat0mr wrote

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

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BrokenEye3 t1_iu87uo2 wrote

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

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Kickstartbeaver t1_iu97lza wrote

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.

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Oosplop t1_iu93g9h wrote

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

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MacRubys t1_iu8dz5o wrote

Yep. Skynet is learning.

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RealMENwearPINK10 t1_iu8l5mx wrote

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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Blutarg t1_iu8ui69 wrote

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

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Drekamor t1_iu9nwlp wrote

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

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FancyUmpire8023 t1_iu9ujyq wrote

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.

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glacierre2 t1_iua2sqw wrote

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

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RobertoPaulson t1_iuaiax7 wrote

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

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RickardsRed77 t1_iub3hbo wrote

What did you think they were for?

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Captain__Spiff t1_iuc7pbu wrote

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

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scurvydog-uldum t1_iu84fvd wrote

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

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Blutarg t1_iu8ulku wrote

Why on Earth would that be obvious?

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