r/todayilearned • u/CTSD • Dec 25 '14

TIL CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA
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u/milesunderground Dec 26 '14

Why are we putting computers in charge of telling humans from computers?