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▶ 27:54 Alex Kantrowitz Bots or latest models to generate a captcha and pass it. 2 times in the scene

▶ 12:53 Balaji Srinivasan The CAPTCHA was like V zero of that, you can argue, and became commercially important.

▶ 31:43 Rick Song CAPTCHAs are already better solved at this point than, uh, by AI.

▶ 1:36 Guy Raz You were instrumental in helping to develop a technology called CAPTCHA, which is, of course, those annoying, um, sort of characters that you have to read to confirm that you are a human.

▶ 1:12 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a perfect storm of skill and luck drove Luis Van An to create Captcha, then ReCaptcha, and then Duolingo, a foreign language app valued at 1.5 billion dollars. 5 times in the scene
▶ 11:12 Luis von Ahn It's this idea of a captcha where it's basically these distorted characters that you have to type whenever you're buying tickets on Ticketmaster or getting, you know, an email account or stuff like that. 8 times in the scene
▶ 15:16 Luis von Ahn I had worked on CAPTCHA where the idea was that humans can do some things computers cannot.
▶ 20:24 Guy Raz So you're teaching and, um, you had done CAPTCHA and lots of people are saying, hey, 10 times in the scene

▶ 26:32 Shaan Puri So the original capture was done by this guy. 3 times in the scene

▶ 0:51 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a perfect storm of skill and luck drove Luis Van An to create Captcha, then ReCaptcha, and then Duolingo, a foreign language app valued at 1.5 billion dollars. 5 times in the scene
▶ 11:00 Luis von Ahn It's this idea of a captcha where it's basically these distorted characters that you have to type whenever you're buying tickets on Ticketmaster or getting, you know, an email account or stuff like that. 2 times in the scene
▶ 12:26 Guy Raz And you called it CAPTCHA. 6 times in the scene
▶ 15:04 Luis von Ahn I had worked on CAPTCHA where the idea was that humans can do some things computers cannot.
▶ 20:14 Guy Raz You had done CAPTCHA, and lots of people are saying, hey, it's annoying, and you're like, yep, I hear you, and, and people kept saying that to you, like, kept hearing that? 8 times in the scene

▶ 5:47 Luis von Ahn The standard captures these distorted squiggly letters that you see all over the internet that you have to type, for example, whenever you're buying tickets for Ticketmaster. 5 times in the scene

▶ 27:28 Dileep George Um, so we, you know, when we, um, broke, uh, captures our algorithms were running on, uh, you know, just using C and running using Python, et cetera.

▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings And prior to Duolingo, Lewis is known for inventing captures, being a MacArthur Fellow, or otherwise known as the Genius Grant, and selling two companies to Google in his twenties.

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