So basically nothing good is going on in the world today. Mostly due to the fact that we as humans are basically obsessed with the death of a particular pop star. I’ll leave my feelings aside, and yes I am sad, I thought he had a lot of talent, his personal like not so much but, that’s for people to discuss when there not here hopefully learning something new. So after thinking about how much information is wasted everyday I found my self filling out a meaningless CAPTCHA. If your not familiar with what I’m talking about, there the pointless and meaningless words you have to fill out in a box, that proves your a human. Computers have yet to reach a point where they can distinguish between words that are not crisp. They have to make a guess because there not as intelligent as us, yet. (This is where Isaac Asimov pops out with some robots and beat me up!) Then of course it led me to find out more about CAPTCHA.
Well Luis von Ahn the computer scientist who made CAPTCHA to help stop spamming, has come up with some creative ideas for CAPTCHA. He knows we all waste time filling out these things for new e-mail addresses or friend requests, so he put CAPTCHA to work for us. Watch the video and find out how CAPTCHA is actually working for you, and how you help every time you fill one out. Its really cool and now I don’t feel like its a waste of time.
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