Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 158: "One Amazing New Way A.I. Beat a CAPTCHA, and Two Companies Who Could Pioneer Better CAPTCHAs"
This is the bonus show for Episode 158! (CAPTCHAs)
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topic of how CAPTCHAs could actually start working for us, maybe, if either of two specific companies revolutionize them. (Also, whoops, A.I. is comprehensively beating our current CAPTCHAs.)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
Why All the ChatGPT Predictions Are Bogus (The Atlantic)
Artificial Intelligence Beats CAPTCHA Neural net modeled after human brain's visual system could aid computer preception (IEEE Spectrum)
An Algorithm That Hides Your Online Tracks With Random Footsteps (The Atlantic)
How Apple wants to kill those annoying CAPTCHA tests (Popular Science)
How disappointed Taylor Swift fans explain Ticketmaster’s monopoly (Vox)
How Taylor Swift Broke Ticketmaster (The Atlantic)
Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift Mess Is So Bad, Even Congress Noticed (Los Angeles Magazine)
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