Captcha, vector illustration Denis Lytiagin | Istock | Getty Images Have you ever been left confused by the mutated text that often appears when trying to make an online purchase, asking you to prove you’re not a robot? Or gotten a headache from squinting at your screen, trying to figure …
Read More »Annoying CAPTCHA is still big for Google and e-commerce in bot battle, and likely to stay that way
Captcha, vector illustration Denis Lytiagin | Istock | Getty Images Have you ever been left confused by the mutated text that often appears when trying to make an online purchase, asking you to prove you’re not a robot? Or gotten a headache from squinting at your screen, trying to figure …
Read More »Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part VI: The quest to build machines like us
Can machines think? That question prompted British mathematician Alan Turing to invent one of the most influential experiments in artificial intelligence. The imitation game, or Turing test as it’s called today, challenged a machine to imitate a human indistinguishably in a text-only conversation. Any machine to successfully fool its human …
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