On 10/8/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Eventually computers will surpass humans in their pattern matching and speech recognition abilities, making captchas obsolete.
Captchas aren't limited to pattern matching and speech recognition. When computers catch up to humans enough to make captchas obsolete, it's time to let them write the encyclopedia.
I think we should start developing tools for that day, instead of relying on this moribund technology.
Pretty much all technology is moribund. If you can come up with a technology today which will solve the unknown problems of some indefinite point in the future, by all means let us know what they are.