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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Technology
John Bett

Artificial Intelligence bot pretends to be blind person to beat CAPTCHA test

Artificial Intelligence is taking over the world as each day new breakthroughs are announced, and now one bot has found a way to beat a CAPTCHA test.

The simple puzzles are designed to detect if a user is human and should be impossible for a computer to solve, as it requires the user to identify letters or numbers or to select images that match a prompt.

But it turns out there's a way around them, as GPT-4 encountered one of the tests and recognised it wouldn't be able to pass it - but figured out that a human could.

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