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October 15, 2003
CAPTCHA
Could the Flea become CAPTCHA enabled (via a most useful comment at James Seng)? What is CAPTCHA? This is an acronym for A Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
Since 1950, when British mathematician Alan Turing wrote an article called "Computer Machinery and Intelligence" for an Oxford philosophy journal, people have applied the phrase Turing test to any experiment in which subjects must distinguish between man and machine by exchanging information with the unknown entity. Such tests strive to determine whether a computer exhibits human intelligence, indicated, in Turing's view, by the computer successfully fooling subjects into believing it's human. CAPTCHA turns the game around, with the machine separating humans from computers.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 15, 2003 09:38 AM