Artificial Artificial Intelligence
Amazon has a new Web service, the Amazon Mechanical Turk, which allows developers to make queries against "real, live human beings".
What does this mean for the future of Captcha? Social engineering is one thing but how long until Web sites have to defend against an organized and commercialized army of "mechanical Turks"?
"Workers" pay "Requesters" to perform "Human Intelligence Tasks"
A typical human intelligence task might be entering the license plate text from the car shown in a photo. This represents a task that can be very easy for a human being, but extremely difficult for a computer.
I guess it does open the possibility for artificial, artificial, artificial intelligence where programmers write programs to perform task that people "think" are difficult for computers to do. Anyone interested?