Spam
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Study of animal behavior is a slow process, with human observers spending years watching and classifying different actions. A team from Columbia University is determined to develop an easier, and more objective method using machine learning and algorithms often used for spam-filtering purposes.
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San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup Vicarious has announced that it has developed software algorithms which can solve CAPTCHAs up to 90 percent of the time. The high success rate renders the current standard of text-based CAPTCHAs ineffective, the company claims.
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The Civil Rights Captcha employs questions concerning civil and political rights to ward off spambots.
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Newly-developed software has been shown to pick out deceptive online reviews with almost 90 percent accuracy.