“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?
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.