2011, Dec– / captcha

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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." The purpose of Captcha programs is to restrict access to online forums and accounts to humans and to keep automated "spam-bots" and other such malicious programs out. The "Turing" in the title refers to Alan Turing whose theories helped form the basis of early computing and who is famous for asking the question, “can machines think?"

In this short video produced with the help of Casber and Fefe, a character is introduced and asks, “What am I?” This is the question at the heart of the Turing test. Is she human? And by design, the same question is being asked of the viewer. What is the right answer to prove that you are human?

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