Bloomberg - Are you a robot? (2024)

FAQs

Why do I have to prove that I am not a robot? ›

The “I'm not a robot” verification is designed to protect websites from these attacks, which are a serious problem on the internet. Hackers and spammers often use bots to automatically create fake accounts, submit spam comments, and perform other malicious activities.

robot, any automatically operated machine that replaces human effort, though it may not resemble human beings in appearance or perform functions in a humanlike manner. By extension, robotics is the engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction, and operation of robots.

Automation. The rise of Machine-Learning (AI) has led some commentators to propose new definitions, but doing so is misleading. AI is one of thousands of technological advances that enables us to automate different professions.

Humanoid robots (or simply humanoids) is often used to refer to robots whose shape is close to humans.

reCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse. A “CAPTCHA” is a turing test to tell human and bots apart. It is easy for humans to solve, but hard for “bots” and other malicious software to figure out.

If there's something unusual about your sign in or recent activity, we'll ask you to go through another verification step after you've entered the correct password. This is an important security feature that helps to protect your account from unauthorized access.

A gynoid, or fembot, is a feminine humanoid robot. Gynoids appear widely in science fiction film and art. As more realistic humanoid robot design becomes technologically possible, they are also emerging in real-life robot design.

Bryson said that with Sophia, we overlook and misunderstand what powerful AI is. In one of the interviews, Sophia's creator said to Jimmy Falon that she is alive, even though she is nowhere near becoming alive.

Erica is a Japanese humanoid robot created by Hiroshi Ishiguro, the director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. Designed to be the most intelligent humanoid in Japan, Erica's primary focus is her speech capabilities. Erica can easily interact with humans and change her facial expressions as per the conversation.

It's called the CAPTCHA test, and it's supposed to prevent automated bots from flooding these websites and online services. CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart.”

Does I'm not a robot check your history? ›

It's how you behaved before you ticked the box that is analysed. "So, to be honest, I can't tell you all the details because they keep it secret because they don't want people trying to cheat the test, but broadly speaking, you tick the box and it prompts the website to check your browsing history.

According to cyber-security firm Cloudflare, the test tracks the movement of the user's cursor as they move it toward the box. "Even the most direct motion by a human has some amount of randomness on the microscopic level: tiny unconscious movements that bots can't easily mimic.

The short answer

Robots absolutely can check a box on command. But that checkbox is tracking way more information than a simple checkbox click to determine whether you're a human or a robot.