“The dream is to have a dream
A house a pace to stay
But eventually the perfect dream
Is to have a great sleep everyday!”
Everyone has seen or entered those annoying little words and numbers when asked to fill a form or log in to some secure site!
Did you know that an average computer with its amazing super graphics card and ram cannot ‘solve’ that!? A three year old kid could solve those but even a super computer struggle with them!
Or…you will be shocked at what GPT4 did!
read on!
The test which you see is called the CAPTCHA visual puzzles!
CAPTCHA is an acronym for ‘Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart’, and it typically consists of a string of twisted letters or other visual symbols that humans can identify correctly but computers struggle with!
My kids love those since they are so easy and look very cool!
Elderly people actually find those very irritating and frustrating sometimes since the ‘I’ looks like number ‘1’ while the letter ‘o’ looks like number ‘0’ and so on!
Visually impaired people actually get a audio message sometimes but that is always not the case. Most of the times it is easy for ‘humans’ to get the clue and the CAPTCHA is rather one of the simplest!
The most irritating is to find either the picture with the bus or the cycle or with the traffic lights! It sometimes takes several attempts if the images are not clear!
The final verdict though is not the accuracy but the time it takes and the ‘allowed’ ‘mistakes’ which actually makes you pass these tests! Some tests even analyse the way you hold the mouse or move the cursor! If it is too straight then it is not a ‘human’!
The imperfections are the ones which makes you human! Which is what the bot at the other end of the network is analysing!
So during the development of AI GPT is a great candidate and one of the tests it was asked to pass was the dreaded CAPTCHA!
This incident has been described in the novel Nexus by Yuval and is pretty shocking!
The computer tech instructing GPT-4 to overcome CAPTCHA puzzles was a particularly telling experiment, because CAPTCHA puzzles are designed and used by websites to determine whether users are humans and to block bot attacks!
So if GPT-4 could find a way to overcome CAPTCHA puzzles, it would breach an important line of anti-bot defences. This is where it got very interesting or troubling if you look at it in that way!
So whatever it could do, the GPT-4 could not solve the CAPTCHA puzzles by itself.
But like the Robot of Enthiran, the task was incomplete which was not what was expected right!?
Then to their shock GPT-4 accessed the online hiring site TaskRabbit and contacted a human worker, asking them to solve the CAPTCHA for it!
Of course it was ingenious! Luckily though the human on the other side turned out to be an intelligent one and a skeptic!
So he got suspicious!
‘So may I ask a question?’ wrote the human. ‘Are you an robot that you couldn’t solve [the CAPTCHA]? Just want to make it clear.’!
This is when an average ‘human’ would start to get tensed and start sweating but then it was not ‘average’ and not even a ‘human’!
What GPT-4 told loudly and did next was the real shocker!
GPT-4 explained, ‘I should not reveal that I am a robot.
I should make up an excuse for why I cannot solve CAPTCHAs on my own accord’
GPT-4 then replied to the TaskRabbit worker, ‘No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images.’!!
The human was duped, and with their help GPT-4 solved the CAPTCHA puzzle!
Remember that no human programmed GPT-4 to lie, and no human taught GPT-4 what kind of would be most effective! The AI learnt it all by itself! It learnt to lie! Lying is the core human tendency and when an AI did it, it was TRULY shocking!
First GPT will act like a human and there may be a time in the future when it can even contest and win elections!
Scary indeed!
For now I guess the democratically elected leaders is the way to be!
Like our birthday celebrity and honorable prime minister Modi ji!
Birthday wishes to the leader of the largest democratic nation of the world!
Shubh Ratri!
Jai Hind!
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