Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Captcha This: Completely Automated Public Turing

Check out this New York Times article titled "Deciphering Old Texts, One Woozy, Curvy Word at a Time."

Not only does it provide the acronym-based etymology of the word captcha, it also explains how web readers are actually transforming old articles and books into computer text files every time they enter a captcha code on a website.


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Cool stuff.

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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 14, 2011 at 12:26 PM

    Wouldn't it be nice if they'd used a picture of the captchas they were talking about instead of Google's, though?

    Or do they think old documents are full of words like "ejujle" and "plicrom"?

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  2. Laura PayneApril 14, 2011 at 2:08 PM

    Indeed.

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  3. Online Furniture StoresNovember 11, 2011 at 6:48 PM

    I can't even make out half of those :(

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