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Tiny AI Startup Vicarious Says It’s Solved CAPTCHA

1 points by plessthanpt05 13y ago

ColinWright 13y ago
The popularity of this story evidences how universally hated are CAPTCHAs. here are some of the submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625245 (forbes.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625247 (kurzweilai.net) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625351 (technologyreview.com) <- Main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6626405 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6626405 (vimeo.com) <- video of process in action https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6627848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6627848 (vicariousinc.tumblr.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628086 (cbc.ca) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628092 (wired.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629173 (wired.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629559 (newscientist.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629656 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629656 (dailydot.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629708 (mashable.com) ======== There are two other comments worth reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629173: That's a lot of fancy words to say that they overfit to their training data. That makes this sound like a very typical result in supervised machine learning (if it's a result at all). They have used an algorithm to learn a brittle heuristic that works in the cases it was trained to work on. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628092: Please look at this comment from Yann LeCun: https://plus.google.com/104362980539466846301/posts/Qwj9EEkU... [0] "Beware: It's a textbook example of AI hype of the worst kind" [0] https://plus.google.com/104362980539466846301/posts/Qwj9EEkUJXY https://plus.google.com/104362980539466846301/posts/Qwj9EEkU...

1 points by plessthanpt05 13y ago

The popularity of this story evidences how universally hated are CAPTCHAs. here are some of the submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625245 (forbes.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625247 (kurzweilai.net) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625351 (technologyreview.com) <- Main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6626405 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6626405 (vimeo.com) <- video of process in action https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6627848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6627848 (vicariousinc.tumblr.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628086 (cbc.ca) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628092 (wired.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629173 (wired.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629559 (newscientist.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629656 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629656 (dailydot.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629708 (mashable.com) ======== There are two other comments worth reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629173: That's a lot of fancy words to say that they overfit to their training data. That makes this sound like a very typical result in supervised machine learning (if it's a result at all). They have used an algorithm to learn a brittle heuristic that works in the cases it was trained to work on. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628092: Please look at this comment from Yann LeCun: https://plus.google.com/104362980539466846301/posts/Qwj9EEkU... [0] "Beware: It's a textbook example of AI hype of the worst kind" [0] https://plus.google.com/104362980539466846301/posts/Qwj9EEkUJXY https://plus.google.com/104362980539466846301/posts/Qwj9EEkU...