Think In Geek » curiosities http://thinkingeek.com In geek we trust Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:00:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The madness of captchas http://thinkingeek.com/2007/07/09/the-madness-of-captchas/ http://thinkingeek.com/2007/07/09/the-madness-of-captchas/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:03:09 +0000 jsegura http://thinkingeek.com/?p=64 Nowadays computers still can’t pass the Turing Test (but some researches show that they will pass it at 2029) , well, there are still some humans that can’t. But they have achieved to pass some captcha images.

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BitDefender and SoftScan articles show that in the last days some spam bots have registered email accounts at Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo mail. This is a big step for spammers that produce on me two side feelings. On the one hand I’m so sad because my mail filter has to work a lot to deal with this nasty plague, but on the other hand this has to wake on us encouraging feelings of a near future where computer can pass the Turing Test. This is like in my Science Fiction books.

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