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“Almost impossible“ isn’t good enough. “Almost impossible” is why two women in Floria have the same SSN: born the same day, same state, almost the same name (Joanna and Joannie Rivera), and why they were not even the example I had in mind when I googled for a similar story I’d heard a decade earlier.

And if your goal is just “is this a human or a machine?”, well, let me introduce you to the idea of identity theft, and why people stole all that data from Equifax.

The only way to tell humans and bots apart is some form of automated Turing test, hence Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.



in fact turing tests will be useless at some point, which is the whole basis of my speculation about alternatives to it as i originally stated. dont you agree that captchas will become obsolete at some point? what then?


If Turing tests become obsolete, we will have human level AI and the bots will be granted personhood. That’s the point of the test.


captchas are turing tests. their purpose is not to grant personhood to robots. captcha will be totally broken well before machines become sentient.


Turing tests are, by definition, the thing which if a computer passes all of then they are a person.




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