Updated @ 05:25 April 19: Four months after it first published this
research (detailed in the story below), Google is now promoting this
deep neural network as a win for both Street View and its Recaptcha
product. As far as I can tell, nothing has changed since January —
Google is just now framing it as “our neural network is so advanced
that it can decrypt our captchas as well as a human,” rather than
improving Street View’s ability to decrypt hard-to-read house signs.
The software can decrypt the hardest type of Recaptcha captchas with
99.8% accuracy (which is a lot better than my own accuracy).
research (detailed in the story below), Google is now promoting this
deep neural network as a win for both Street View and its Recaptcha
product. As far as I can tell, nothing has changed since January —
Google is just now framing it as “our neural network is so advanced
that it can decrypt our captchas as well as a human,” rather than
improving Street View’s ability to decrypt hard-to-read house signs.
The software can decrypt the hardest type of Recaptcha captchas with
99.8% accuracy (which is a lot better than my own accuracy).
