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Google at least uses captchas to gather training data for computer vision ML models. That's why they show pictures of stop lights and buses and motorcycles - so
by mprovost 1y ago
Google at least uses captchas to gather training data for computer vision ML models. That's why they show pictures of stop lights and buses and motorcycles - so they can train self-driving cars.
- nolist_policy 1y agoInteresting, do you have a source for this?
- bun_at_work 1y ago[dead]
- mprovost 1y agoThey've updated the ReCaptcha website, but it used to say: "Every time our CAPTCHAs are solved, that human effort helps digitize text, annotate images, and build machine learning datasets." https://web.archive.org/web/20140417093510/https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20140417093510/https://www.googl...
- layer8 1y agoFrom https://www.vox.com/22436832/captchas-getting-harder-ai-artificial-intelligence https://www.vox.com/22436832/captchas-getting-harder-ai-arti...: “Correction, May 19 [2021]: At 5:22 in the video, there is an incorrect statement on Google’s use of reCaptcha V2 data. While Google have used V2 tests to help improve Google Maps, according to an email from Waymo (Google’s self-driving car project), the company isn’t using this image data to train their autonomous cars.”
- theptip 1y agoThat’s not the original purpose of Captchas, it’s just a value-harvesting exercise, given that Google is doing a Captcha anyway. Other Captcha providers do a simple Proof of Work in the browser to make bots economically unviable.