Neural captcha cracker

[pwired]

Cracking captcha with ai

http://vicariousinc.tumblr.com/post/65316134613/vicarious-ai-passes-first-turing-test-captcha

[adrian]

Well, now it's official - I've been outsmarted by a machine - if it can solve all Google reCAPTCHAs then it is one up on me. I am lucky to still have much better than 20/20 vision - I can't imagine how someone with failing eyesight manages with some of reCAPTCHA's concoctions!

I hope this means that captchas will die a quick death!

[Joe]

Yes adrian, great! I´ve rarely been able to solve those captchas myself on the first attempt.   And also very cool: in a few years I can get a freeware version of this software, have it learn PHP and how to use Processwire and some artistic notions about web design and I can retire! ... eh.. be retired?!

As it says in the article:

Although still many years away, the commercial applications of RCN will have broad implications for robotics, medical image analysis, image and video search, and many other fields.

[Beluga]

Captchas are bad user experience anyways.. use a blacklist like http://stopforumspam.com/

[teppo]

Just for the record: I'll consider using a captcha, blacklist etc. once honeypots (regular or reverse) start failing me. So far they've provided better results than any other solution -- and all that without breaking UX.

[Soma]

Funny they have a captcha on their own contact form...

[Martijn Geerts]

@Soma... lol