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'Humans Not Invited' Is a CAPTCHA Test That Welcomes Bots, Filters Out Humans (vice.com)
While most CAPTCHA tests we come across on the Web are usually meant to keep robots out, one website is welcoming them in. From a report: The conceit of Humans Not Invited is essentially a reverse CAPTCHA. Visitors to the site are greeted with a vision test not unlike the ones you've done before, but instead it's filled with seemingly indistinguishable blue and gray blurry boxes. When I tried, prompted to "select all squares with selfie sticks." Most humans, like me, will fail to decipher the hidden selfie sticks and will be shown a message that says "YOU'RE A HUMAN. YOU'RE NOT INVITED." To the human eye these boxes appear indistinguishable, a specially programmed bot can spot out the correct image simply by identifying a handful of pixels, according to the project's creator, Damjanski, (his real name is Danjan Pita).
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"Welcome!
You are not a human
like these: "
I tried once, have 100% success rate. Maybe there's something I don't know about myself.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
This is also why we can't detect signals from alien intelligences. They don't care to contact meatbags, they're waiting for earthly intelligence worth communicating with.
Saw the article here and tried it twice before I showed it to a buddy in my office. He passed the captcha on his first try... THEY'RE AMONG US
Well, to be fair, our new Robot Overlords, whom I welcome and embrace wholeheartedly, need a place to hang out without us slow, smelly meatbags getting in their way all the time...
I've heard that Tinder already uses this technology to populate the female profiles.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
I think the take away from this is that it shows that AI isn't really seeing what we think it's seeing in most cases. Any human would say "there is no selfie stick" or "there is no traffic light", but for some reason the AI sees something where nothing exists, similar to how humans sometimes see a face where no face exists.
Anecdote time/a>. There was an AI that was supposed to be learning to tell wolves from other dogs. They eventually thought the AI learned pretty well and thought it was doing a great job. On all their test photos, the AI was doing a great job in determining "wolf" or "domestic dog". However, they learned later that the AI was just actually seeing if there was show in the picture, as all the pictures of wolves contained snow, while the pictures of other dogs didn't contain snow.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
I should have absolutely no trouble at all being invited into the brotherhood of bots. I frequently spend 4 or 5 minutes trying to prove that I'm a human, and I don't always succeed.
The folks at Google who infected the Web with reCaptcha should DIAF.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
The definitive test for robot-hood was created over a decade ago.
Which of the following would you most prefer:
A. A puppy*
B. A pretty flower from your sweetie
C. A large, properly formatted data file
CHOOSE!
* It is the bad kind of puppy - not mechanical in any way
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