The popularity of this story evidences how universally hated are CAPTCHAs. here are some of the submissions:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625245" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625245</a> (forbes.com)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625247" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625247</a> (kurzweilai.net)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625351" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625351</a> (technologyreview.com) <- Main discussion<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6626405" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6626405</a> (vimeo.com) <- video of process in action<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6627848" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6627848</a> (vicariousinc.tumblr.com)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628086" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628086</a> (cbc.ca)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628092" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628092</a> (wired.com)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629173" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629173</a> (wired.com)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629559" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629559</a> (newscientist.com)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629656" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629656</a> (dailydot.com)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629708" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629708</a> (mashable.com)<p>========<p>There are two other comments worth reading.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629173" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629173</a>:<p><pre><code> That's a lot of fancy words to say that they overfit
to their training data.
That makes this sound like a very typical result in
supervised machine learning (if it's a result at all).
They have used an algorithm to learn a brittle heuristic
that works in the cases it was trained to work on.
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<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628092" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628092</a>:<p><pre><code> Please look at this comment from Yann LeCun:
https://plus.google.com/104362980539466846301/posts/Qwj9EEkU... [0]
"Beware: It's a textbook example of AI hype of the worst kind"
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[0] <a href="https://plus.google.com/104362980539466846301/posts/Qwj9EEkUJXY" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/104362980539466846301/posts/Qwj9EEkU...</a>