CAPTCHA Busted? Company Claims To Have Broken Protection System

sciencehabit writes "A software company called Vicarious claims to have created a computer algorithm that can solve CAPTCHA with greater than 90% accuracy. If true, the advance would represent a major breakthrough in artificial intelligence. It would also mean that the internet will have to start looking for a new security system. The problem, however, is that Vicarious has provided little evidence for its claims, though some well-known scientists are behind the work."

In other news...

[Cyfun]

I cured cancer, stopped global warming, and found the last missing episodes of Doctor Who.

Just take my word for it.

Better than humans

[Manfre]

I wish I could get CAPTCHAs right 90% of the time.

Re:90%

[hobarrera]

And that's their undoing.
Show the user 10 captchas:
If none match -> It's an old bot
If some match -> It's human
It over 90% match -> It's this new algorithm.

There, solved!

Reverse CAPTCHA

[Anonymous Coward]

Time for the reverse CAPTCHA. If you can guess it correctly, you must be a bot.

Re:90%

[jythie]

And thus began the arms race where eventually the only way to use the internet requires buying an up to date bot plugin for your browser... ^_^

Re: In other news...

[jd2112]

I'll take your word for most of those but I need video proof of the lost Dr .Who episodes.

Re:Wish there was some more information

[marcello_dl]

> Although "Recursive Cortical Network" sounds really cool, it would be nice to, you know, learn a bit about how it WORKS.

It works just like the "Recursive Cortical Network", look it up.

Re:Semantic capthas?

[Anonymous Coward]

Or this:
[image]
Type the one that flies:
England Turkey Russia

"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"