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Can you elaborate on this? What work are people actually doing for Google when they complete these awful captchas?
by bogomipz 8y ago
Can you elaborate on this? What work are people actually doing for Google when they complete these awful captchas?
- yyyymmddhhmmss 8y agoOn any level, the data represents an average product of human visual calculation. A simple use case would be comparing that with the product of machine visual calculations to better understand and optimize the systems they are designing.
- yesenadam 8y agoI believe the "read this hard-to-read text" ones are helping machines read text, the "is this a street sign" ones are helping machines drive cars.
- kirion25 8y agoThe older captcha with words was for the digitization of books. It helped in the Google Books, and Internet Archive projects notably. https://cogdogblog.com/2013/12/recaptcha-all-the-books/ https://cogdogblog.com/2013/12/recaptcha-all-the-books/ The current one helps in identifying and navigating streets, useful for maps and autonomous driving. https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha-to-decode-street-view-addresses/ https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha... You'll notice that recaptcha always has a direct effect on current projects of Google/Alphabet: Google Books, Google Maps, Waymo.
- yesenadam 8y agoIncidentally, it's a mystery to me why so many of the Gutenberg/Internet Archive books have such ludicrously bad plain-text renderings, utterly unusable/unreadable, with often barely one word correct per page - since neural nets have been getting very high scores on MNIST handwriting recognition (for example) for a long time now, maybe since the 90s? It's a shame.