As intelligent as computers may now be, it’s through utilising the differences between computers and humans that Vicap could create our unique Captcha test. Captcha stands for ‘Completely Automated Public Turing test for telling Humans and Computers Apart’ and was originally designed back in 1997 to determine whether a user is human or machine.
We all know that the artificial intelligence designed to solve Captcha’s has advanced hugely since then. However, the formats of the Captcha tests used to protect websites haven’t evolved sufficiently to outwit the methods being adopted by advanced computer programs. Using any of the current distorted image type of Captcha tests is posing an AI problem because machine learning rates are rapidly exceeding the speed at which the current Captcha images can be created.
With this in mind, VICAP wanted an entirely new approach. Computers and humans operate very differently, so we have embraced these differences to ensure the computer based attacks can’t pass the tests we produce.
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