CAPTCHA's are getting are harder, are humans getting smarter?

  Typing is a thing of the past, why type when you can click on pretty pictures that allow you to see a guy falling off his bike while you're trying to squint at your computer screen to find pictures of all the crosswalks. This is where CAPTCHAs improved test comes in.

But before discussing the annoying picture test we have all become so aquatinted with the was a pre-successor before the newer form of reCAPTCHA since 2005, CAPTCHA has become a thing of the past and since 2009 when Google bought CAPTCHA and swore to use it to improve the safety of the internet, Google has created a new kind of test. The new test required the user to read the text obtained from a news article and book comprised of two words, the first word from a novel found on Google Books and the second a new article. This Turing test worked like this, and this may seem like a major cheat around the system for those who struggle to read squiggly words, as long as the user was able to identify the first word the computer automatically assumed that because the user was able to identify the first word they most likely got the second one right as well. This meant that the user could input anything for the second word, but the system would still let the user bypass the reCAPTCHA even if it was far from being right.

You're probably wondering now, why don't why still use this version of reCAPTCHA? The fact of the matter was, there was nothing wrong with the test itself, rather Google ran out of words to pull from books or news articles, believe it or not, because of the millions of CAPTCHA that are generated every day. Once the word is used it can't be used anymore because the computer will be able to memorize it not the words itself rather, the letters and the computer will be able to store a collection of different warped letters, and eventually, it will be able to use that knowledge to solved warped texts, something that a computer was supposed to be terrible at and humans would strive in. After a period of tests the succeeded and failed, CAPTCHAs ended up being the picture tests we have all grown to love today.