[nfbcs] Captcha

[Gary Wunder]

What is so interesting is that we like and use computers because they are
our slaves. We don't feel guilty making them add hundreds of lines to update
our checkbooks or keep our lists. The more we can work them the better we
feel about our investment.

Now that we have servants without guilt, we have set about wanting to make
them intelligent--we want them to grow consciousness. As you would say,
Mike, we want Mr. Data. 



-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Mike Freeman
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:56 PM
To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Captcha

Agreed. Moreover, although I am not familiar with Cold Fusion, I venture to
opine that if web developers thought it a significant advance over
spam-blocking strategies now available, they'd have beaten a path to the
door of the developers of Cold Fusion. It's possible that its technology is
a significant advance over present anti-spam-bot solutions but it will only
be a matter of time before it, too, is circumvented.

To my way of thinking, the only solution is political, not technical: the
United States should deny foreign aid to any country whose ISPs are used for
spam dissemination. <grin>

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Gary Wunder
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:17 PM
To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Captcha

To understand the problem of detecting whether or not you have a human or a
machine on the other end of the connection, consider SIRI. I can ask it to
add two numbers and it will. I can say "What day is it" or "What day of the
week is it" or "what day will it be tomorrow" If I come up with syntax it
does not understand, I am confident someone on the development team is
looking at this as well. We are fighting the problem of defining the
difference between artificial intelligence and human intelligence, and I
fear the only real difference is experience and there's lots of effort to
give machines that experience--language syntax, geographical information,
historical information, current news. What is it that makes us unique? If we
can't find that, then we will fail at coming up with a way to differentiate
between man and machine. Like John and Mike, I am not optimistic that we
will find a good captcha, so we have to continue to make our needs known and
not be left out.

Gary



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