Computer scientists have developed artificial intelligence that can outsmart the Captcha website security check system.
Captcha challenges people to prove they are human by recognising combinations of letters and numbers that machines would struggle to complete correctly.
Researchers developed an algorithm that imitates how the human brain responds to these visual clues.
The neural network could identify letters and numbers from their shapes.
The research, conducted by Vicarious - a Californian artificial intelligence firm funded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - is published in the journal Science.
Good. Now maybe I can get past Captchas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2017, @02:37AM
Unless you are using surpass the bar in a strange way, I think you have it the wrong way round. Chess and Go are fixed rules in a limited universe.
Solving self-driving is going to be much more harder and more complicated. Captchas are somewhere in the middle depending on their difficulty and acceptable failure rate.