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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You can’t make them any harder than human beings can detect.

Imagine using Where’s Waldo? type images. There are certainly people who could quickly find Waldo in every image. But most people couldn’t. Most people would get the answers wrong – and trying to train your AI based on mostly wrong answers isn’t going to result in a particularly good AI.