CAPTCHA, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where CAPTCHA comes up
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
- ▶ 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