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Schneider: YouTube limits creator contact email views to eight per 24 hours
“The challenge with this is it's behind a captcha and YouTube limits you to only about like eight email like opens per per time that you do this, right? Or per session. It's like a 24 hour rolling window is how it works.”
Dhillon: AI broke CAPTCHAs and passed the Turing test without enough panic
“One of my biggest anxieties is that, like, generally, to your point, CAPTCHAs are broken, right? Which, like, hey, we passed the Turing test a while ago. For some reason, we just blew past that and don't talk about it enough. We all are blowing past what effec…”
Klein: Authentication, not CAPTCHAs, will be the biggest barrier for AI agents
“I actually think that off is the biggest thing that will prevent agents from accessing stuff, not captures.”
Von Ahn: Yahoo deployed CAPTCHA live within about a week of receiving code
“What was amazing is within about a week of when we sent them this, it was already functional. You know, live. It was live.”
Von Ahn: No money was exchanged when providing CAPTCHA to Yahoo
“No money was, no money exchanged hands here.”
Von Ahn: Humans wasted 500,000 hours daily solving 200 million CAPTCHAs
“About two hundred million times a day somebody types a capture. And that's when you get two hundred million times a day times 10 seconds. So humanity as a whole is wasting about 500,000 hours a day typing these captchas.”
Von Ahn: Yahoo deployed CAPTCHA live within a week of receiving code
“What was amazing is within about a week of when we sent them this, it was already functional. You know, live. It was live.”
Von Ahn: No money was exchanged when giving CAPTCHA to Yahoo
“No, no, no, no, no money was, no money exchanged hands.”
Von Ahn: Early CAPTCHAs wasted 500,000 hours of human time daily
“I did a little back of the envelope calculation, realized about two hundred million Times a day somebody types a captcha. And that's when you get two hundred million times a day times 10 seconds. So humanity as a whole is wasting about 500,000 hours a day typi…”
Vicarious AI broke text-based CAPTCHAs with a generative visual perception model
“So this is something that we published in science in like, you know, last year, almost a year back. It's a generative model for visual perception, so it's generative, so it can imagine things trains with very little data and you know, it can do inference in th…”