{"id":7416,"date":"2014-04-18T10:45:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T14:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2014-04-18T10:45:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T14:45:48","slug":"google-cracks-captchas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/google-cracks-captchas\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Cracks CAPTCHAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>Google develops computer vision accurate enough to solve its own CAPTCHAs<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Google has cracked the CAPTCHA. In a paper <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1312.6082v4.pdf\">published this week<\/a>, Google researchers say that they&#8217;ve developed an algorithm that can accurately solve Google&#8217;s own CAPTCHA puzzles \u2014 those obfuscated jumbles of letters and numbers you type in on websites to prove that you&#8217;re human \u2014 with 99.8 percent accuracy, obviously posing something of a problem to the puzzle&#8217;s intended purpose of weeding out robots. The new system was developed to help Google automatically analyze hard-to-read signs and house numbers photographed by its Street View cameras, allowing it to accurately match images with locations on a map. <\/p>\n<p><q>&#8220;Relying on distorted text alone isn\u2019t enough.&#8221;<\/q> <\/p>\n<p>Despite being near perfect when it comes to CAPTCHAs \u2014 a feat that plenty of humans can&#8217;t even manage \u2014 the new system&#8217;s analysis of Street View imagery isn&#8217;t quite as accurate, correctly identifying the text just over 90 percent of the time. When analyzing house numbers specifically, however, its accuracy jumps up to over 96 percent. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/cdn0.vox-cdn.com\/assets\/4310573\/png_base64e7b2e28be74b0640.png\" width=\"480\"\/> <\/p>\n<p><small><i>These CAPTCHAs have been correctly solved by the new algorithm.<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/KH7X82\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em><u>Read the rest of this The Verge article here.<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google develops computer vision accurate enough to solve its own CAPTCHAs &nbsp; Google has cracked the CAPTCHA. In a paper published this week, Google researchers say that they&#8217;ve developed an algorithm that can accurately solve Google&#8217;s own CAPTCHA puzzles \u2014 those obfuscated jumbles of letters and numbers you type in on websites to prove that you&#8217;re human \u2014\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/google-cracks-captchas\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7417,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions\/7417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}