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Old 09-April-2008, 12:39 AM
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Originally Posted by parallaxicality View Post
Whenever I want to revel in human superiority over machines, I remember that no artificial intelligence yet design can read handwriting, or even, for that matter, those bendy letters and numbers that sites put up to protect themselves from bot intruders.
There's an arms-race going between CAPTCHA designers and designers of OCR software to break it.
It looks like the current state is that if a human gets it right every time, the machine can break it.
To avoid automated bypassing, they currently have to make the text so hard to read that I fail half the time.
Don't stop to pat your back too much, the machines are not far behind you.
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