If we’re supposedly training AIs to recognize cars, busses, etc. by filling in CAPTCHAs, how come we are still teaching them the same stuff as 10 years ago? Shouldn’t the images have gotten harder or more sophisticated, to reflect the AIs increasing ability to recognize objects?

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I’ve been filling them out now for nearly 10 years, and they’re always the same! If someone can explain to me how this can be, I’d be very grateful <3

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it really only seems like it hasn’t changed to you because a stop sign at almost any angle you see it is still a recognizable stop sign… to a computer that’s not the same. a stop sign at a 45* angle to the right is not the same as a stop sign at a 30* angle to the right.

it also takes massive amounts of data for machine learning to be accurate. there are obviously some percentage of identifications that are wrong and it requires enough detections to know for sure. also, ideally machine learning is in constant refinement increasing its accuracy with every more data.