Techbros: self driving cars are inevitable!
Also techbros: prove you are human by performing a task that computers can’t do, like identifying traffic lights.
Why do you think the tech bros want us to identify traffic lights, bicycles etc. Its so they can better train their "AI" models to spot them so the self driving cars become a reality. We are all beta testers
@robcornelius I’m fully aware. I’m also aware that they are STILL doing both, simultaneously. Only one can be true. Which is it?
(Hint, it’s “computers can’t identify traffic lights”. Self driving cars are, in fact, randomised murderbots)
@goatsarah @robcornelius captcha is a scam for crowd-sourcing training data and has been such for the past 16 years since Google got the idea they can use people solving captchas as free labor for helping OCR their scanned library of books.
It's not that currently computers can't do it, it's that they can't do it perfectly 100% of the time and the crowdsourcing serves to refine the data they recognise for further training. Do you think a human sits there choosing pics from StreetView and marking which squares contain traffic lights? It's automatically generated from computers recognising this stuff, and the pics that get chosen are those where the computer is mostly sure it recognises some of the objects or the lack thereof (this is the actual human detection part to stop dumb spam answers), and some it's not sure abut (these are the ones you can solve either way and it'll accept your solution, try it if you detect which images that might be).
Then how does that captcha even work if you can have a computer solve it? Simple, spam bots are insanely dumb. You can filter out most of them by including a hidden form field and checking if it remains hidden since bots love filling out all form fields, no image recognition required. To solve captchas with robots you need much more computing power than makes sense for a spam bot and a hand-crafted solving script so that the bot even knows which parts it's supposed to do image recognition on. These are not problems encountered by computers driving cars – they have a metric crapton of computing power dedicated to image recognition of their surroundings, and they are supplied with the images and all the information about them immediately in the form they best understand.
