This will greatly help them with bettering their CV classification algorithms. The kitty picture matching question is a great example.
Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except by answering captchas, you're helping the machines (first words for books, then numbers for street view, now pictures for classification).
That's an interesting thought that every time we introduce novel classification schemes to resolve humans from computers we feed a large training set for them. I never understood how that works, though. If I get a captcha street address wrong then that means they already had the answer, so how am I contributing?
For the street address ones you generally have to answer two questions, one that they know and one that they don't know. You're only 'tested' on one of them, but you don't know which. Once enough people have gotten the known one right and given the same answer to the unknown image they move the unknown image to the known pile.
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#113This is great news! I really really really hate the normal Captcha's.
It has a nice property: To combat spam, Google can tweak this as often as they like without bothering the users of a website or the devs running it.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
On what page did you tested the new system?
Here you go: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo
1. Tested on my normal chrome where I didn't delete any cookies and logged in to my google accounts, and no adblocker running. So plenty of evidence I'm human, with all those cookies from big G.
2. Tested in incognito mode: BAAM: I'm a bot, had to fill out the old captcha!
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't think of many better uses for the menagerie of different tracking methods that they have planted on me, to be honest.
Well if you ever run for political office it's going to save them a boatload on campaign contributions.
Eh, you never know. Attitudes toward certain improprieties have moderated in recent years...
Re: Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”
#116Do they even need the checkbox anymore? They could track mouse movement, keypresses, history or whatever else they are tracking without showing any kind of GUI at all.
Or add the mouse tracking checks to a button that is naturally part of the website, such as "Post Comment" on a WordPress blog.
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#117Who wants to place bets on the "potential robots" more likely to be those without Google cookies or a Google Account?
Certainly seems to be true in my case.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except by answering captchas, you're helping the machines (first words for books, then numbers for street view, now pictures for classification).
That's an interesting thought that every time we introduce novel classification schemes to resolve humans from computers we feed a large training set for them. I never understood how that works, though. If I get a captcha street address wrong then that means they already had the answer, so how am I contributing?
They already know the correct answer if they are only showing you one image to solve.
When there are two images to solve, they know the correct answer to one. The other is shown to thousands of people, and eventually it is solved with high confidence.
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#119This not even close to a Turing test.
I thought Wired was supposed to be a tech site.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish these google pages wouldn't automatically assume you speak some language based on your IP address - I get mine in German without any option to switch. Aren't there standards for setting language in web browsers?
Your browser sends an "Accept-Language" header with the list of languages and order of preference you have configured.
Sure, but many sites including Google like to ignore these (or at least have done so in the past).
The rationalisation is that users don't change settings like these, so their location is a better indicator than what their browser thinks.