Sunday
Mar072010
Make sure you are not a computer
Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 8:46AM | in Blog
Grammar says everything. The online signup process for Nimbuzz, one of the wifi telephone services, asks users:
"To make sure you are not a computer, please type in the characters you see in the text box below:"
In other words, you can find out if you are human or computer by taking their simple test. Imagine if such a test were available to the androids in BladeRunner.
At least we all now have a place to turn if we are afraid we might be computers.
"To make sure you are not a computer, please type in the characters you see in the text box below:"
In other words, you can find out if you are human or computer by taking their simple test. Imagine if such a test were available to the androids in BladeRunner.
At least we all now have a place to turn if we are afraid we might be computers.
Reader Comments (9)
Even computers have their own Turing test. If a computer can be fooled in thinking there's another computer on the other side, then human beings became servomechanisms of computers. Amazon Mechanical Turk and similar projects are on the forefront toward such evolutionary transformation.
As recent as this morning i considered the possibility that some zen associates on twitter might imagine i'd accepted some bad programming. I believe the perception is possible in this Quantum thought experiment. Regular humans watch a regular human observing that visual riddle the enterprise crew inserted into the Borg consciousness. Only the regular human is trying to experience how it works....
-mason
Doug, You need to write a follow up book to Cyberia! Find out what alot of the people you introduced us to are doing now.
We are all programmed by News Corp. All it's really testing is whether or not your OCR is advanced enough to pretend to be human.
I am currently seeing how people around me react by throwing 'Exception errors' (with constructive explanation) left and right. So far it's been exceptionally efficient at identifying human who run on legacy software (and pissing off those who are infected with a modern virus.) Your book, Life Inc., which I finished yesterday, is encouraging me to try to influence things for the better in my job (personal life is already pretty awesome.)
Beautiful idea! I must try this. It's a great title for a book, too....
You have to laugh at those anti spam questions. I was trying to get onto a science forum the other day and there questions related to particle physics which only a very small % of people would be able to answer!
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