{"id":49,"date":"2022-05-06T01:39:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T01:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/theramblerepo\/?p=49"},"modified":"2022-05-06T01:39:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T01:39:58","slug":"turing-tests-and-captcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/theramblerepo\/2022\/05\/06\/turing-tests-and-captcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Turing Tests and CAPTCHA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a former philosophy student, I love to argue that everything came from philosophy. This week I&#8217;ll be discussing CAPTCHA and how these bot stopping tools are no exception to that rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Turing Test<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, some background info &#8211; The Turing Test is named after Alan Turing, who proposed what is known as &#8216;the imitation game&#8217; in 1950.<sup>1<\/sup> Essentially, the imitation game is a way to determine if a computer can effectively imitate a human. Similarly, a Turing test is used to to measure a computer&#8217;s ability to display human-like intelligence.<sup>1<\/sup> Turing&#8217;s &#8216;Imitation Game&#8217; idea was first proposed in <em>Mind<\/em>, a philosophy journal. <sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CAPTCHA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So how do Turing Tests, which originated in philosophy, relate to CAPTCHAs? CAPTCHA stands for &#8216;Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart&#8217;.<sup>3<\/sup> Like Turing tests, CAPTCHAs attempt to distinguish between computers and humans. However, CAPTCHAs are administered by computers. In a sense, the roles outlined in Turing&#8217;s proposal have been reversed.  So, CAPTCHAs stem from Turing&#8217;s original proposal, which was a philosophical one and can be said to have philosophical origins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Oppy, Graham and David Dowe, &#8220;The Turing Test&#8221;,\u00a0<em>The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy\u00a0<\/em>(Winter 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta\u00a0(ed.), URL = &lt;https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/archives\/win2021\/entries\/turing-test\/&gt;.<\/li><li>Turing, Alan M. (1950). Computing machinery and intelligence. <em>Mind<\/em> 59 (October):433-60.<\/li><li>Carnegie Mellon University CyLab, &#8220;The reCAPTCHA Project,&#8221; <em>Internet Archive<\/em>, URL = &lt;https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171027203659\/https:\/\/www.cylab.cmu.edu\/partners\/success-stories\/recaptcha.html&gt;.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a former philosophy student, I love to argue that everything came from philosophy. This week I&#8217;ll be discussing CAPTCHA and how these bot stopping tools are no exception to that rule. The Turing Test First, some background info &#8211; The Turing Test is named after Alan Turing, who proposed what is known as &#8216;the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/theramblerepo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/theramblerepo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/theramblerepo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/theramblerepo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/theramblerepo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/theramblerepo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/theramblerepo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/theramblerepo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/theramblerepo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/theramblerepo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}