[Mgs] Death Trap

[Max Heim]

Machine image recognition. The software "bots" could read it if it were in
plain text -- it is scrambled so that it takes an effort of judgment
possible only through human perception. Software today is capable of
recognizing individual faces in photographs, for example. What it isn't
necessarily capable of doing is determining if that person is happy or sad
or angry in the particular photograph -- but it's getting there. These
"captchas" are just an attempt to keep in front of the AI.




on 8/1/07 7:48 AM, Frank at frankk at intap.net wrote:

> If that is the intent why does it have to written so it is barely legible?
> As long as you have to copy it every time why not just make it legible or
> would that make it too easy to program as well? You can see how compure
> illiterate I am. My technical expertise ended with my 1980 MGB and at times
> that baffles me as well
> Frank
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Daniels" <ladaniels at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Frank" <frankk at intap.net>
> Cc: "MG List" <mgs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 10:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Death Trap
> 
> 
>> I guess that is called a "captcha" and it keeps computer geeks from setting
>> up a program to automatically vote.  They need to read that mess to vote
>> and
>> that requires a personal involvement.
>> 
>> Or so I'm told.
>> 
>> Larry

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