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?

Question

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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Answer 1

They have changed over the years.

The first batch was things like which is a bus, and they would have you pick between bus and bike and cows.

Then the images where the entire photo and you had to do regions that had the crosswalk but they covered multiple cells.

Now there are captchas that are trying to tell the difference between similar looking objects like bus and train.

And some captchas are to check the work of the ai. So you have two images that are confirmed bikes, and somewhere in the set is the one the ai thinks it’s a bike. These tend to be the ones that replace one cell with a couple more one after the other till it is no longer a “bike” before you verify.