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Since reCaptcha tries to differentiate humans from computers/bots, I find it ironic that the same reCaptcha technology is being used to improve the accuracy of
by gehant 17y ago
Since reCaptcha tries to differentiate humans from computers/bots, I find it ironic that the same reCaptcha technology is being used to improve the accuracy of how computers scan text...
- ludwig 17y agoOnly because every time it gets stuck, it "asks" a human.
- elemenohpee 17y agoYeah I thought the article was a little misleading on that point. They made it seem like the human input was improving the OCR algorithms.
- asnyder 17y agoI would think that the human input is improving the OCR algorithms. I assume that every human correction trains the OCR in some way. With enough corrections the OCR should at some point learn to distinguish between the characters it couldn't before.
- rsingel 17y agoWhich means the technology will eventually make an algorithm so good that it can solve a CAPTCHA as well as a human, thus making itself obsolete. What other technology does that?
- furyg3 17y agoguns.
- mildweed 17y agoviruses (the biological type)
- jacquesm 17y agoOnly the ones that are too aggressive. Most viruses shoot for a very nice balance between killing the host and keeping enough of them around for the next batch. The weirdest effect of this is that the most dangerous viruses tend to burn out. If one of those ever came along with a really long incubation time for the disease but a much longer time for contagion that might be a problem.