Some thought it was our ability to love that made us human, but it turns out it was actually our ability to SELECT EACH IMAGE CONTAINING A TRAFFIC LIGHT.
@dgar *crying as I try to figure out if the post counts or not*
@dgar IT'S PART OF THE LIGHT INSTALLATION RIGHT? AM I A ROBOT?
@dgar better than "Write me a letter of love to proof you are human"
@dgar If it was our ability to love, dogs would be human.
@dgar And cars and motos. But never pedestrians (human or animals). Somehow the self driving car should identify without failure traffic lights, other cars and motos.
@dgar It was laugh not love. Pay attention please or you’ll never get those lights right either. 🤣
@dgar doesn’t bode well for driverless cars then
@dgar So by that token anyone who can’t do this for whatever reason, like if they’re blind, is technically not considered human. Well shit. I’m so screwed if AI takes over.
@dgar And at same time to suspend any disbelief that bots can work out what traffic lights or buses look like.
@IndyRichard @dgar This kind of labor is so poorly compensated that it's cheaper for the bot farms to pay gig workers to solve CAPTCHAs than it is to actually implement sufficiently accurate computer vision. For now, anyway.
@dgar Meanwhile aromantics: we can do neither 😅
@dgar Rene Magritte is crying in his grave.

@golgaloth @dgar

Magritte would be proud

c'est n'est pas un trafficlight

@golgaloth @dgar

Could have been worse...

@FrankauLux @golgaloth @dgar Unrelated but here I was listening to a whiskey review and scrolling through Mastadon and at the same time both see and hear 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe'.

Haven't gotten goose bumps like this in ages 👌

Lagavulin 16 y.o review at 1:50 in case anyone is interested.
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=jvGup9Di13c

Piped

An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

@dgar Laughing. And the further irony of that is people tell us we can have computer controlled self-driving cars and yet traffic light recognition is only a human trait?

@dgar

apparently these things track how well you use the mouse, the shakier you are, the more human

@stephenwhq @dgar Yeah, was going to say - the "find the bicycle"-type task itself is pretty much a red herring.

@TEG @dgar

more imaginative required.

'Find the red herring'

'Find the international woman of mystery'

@stephenwhq @dgar From what I read about it a while ago, it's really just to keep people occupied while an algorithm peruses your cookies.
@dgar And some people still think that *one day* we will end up working for machines. Captchas were invented in the year 2000 and we have worked for the training of machines ever since at way too many logins
@dgar
This is because apparently AI bots cannot do this but we want to trust them with running everything.