Wednesday, April 16, 2014

drag2share: Google Street View Accidentally Made an Algorithm That Cracks CAPTCHAs

Source: http://gizmodo.com/google-street-view-accidentally-made-an-algorithm-that-1564000842

Google Street View Accidentally Made an Algorithm That Cracks CAPTCHAs

House numbers on Google Street View can turn up as blobby, blurry things, so its engineers built a pretty crazy neural network to decipher them. Except this algorithm also turns out to be very very good at deciphering other blobby, blurry texts—like CAPTCHAs, which it cracks with 99 percent accuracy. Take that, human.

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