You know those annoying, hard-to-read CAPTCHA text images that Web sites make you type to prove that you're not a machine? Vicarious, a California-based artificial intelligence startup, claims to have written software that can successfully interpret and reproduce the text inside the CAPTCHA image with 90% accuracy.
If it's true, that's better than what a lot of people can do with those skewed letters.
CAPTCHA--the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart--was designed to keep hackers from flooding Web sites with automated responses. By reading and then typing a distorted image of text designed to confuse OCR software, you prove that you're a real human being.
Vicarious claims a 95-percent success rate on reading and decoding individual letters in a CAPTCHA, and a 90-percent success rate on the full, two-word code.
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