CAPTCHAs cracked

• Autores: MacGregor Campbell
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2941, 2013, pág. 21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Campbell highlights a program that seems to have taken a big step towards intelligence. It just got a lot harder for websites to tell. An artificial intelligence system has cracked the most widely used test of whether a computer user is a bot. And according to its designers, it is more than a curiosity--it is a step on the way to human-like artificial intelligence. Asking people to read distorted text is a common way for websites to determine whether or not a user is human. These CAPTCHAs--which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart--can theoretically take on any form, but the text version has proven effective in stopping spam and malicious software bots.