toffeeboy
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Post by toffeeboy on Nov 23, 2016 11:32:22 GMT
surely any assistance from a human stops it being a bot altogether. My understanding is that a bot doesn't need any human assistance at all so the human assistance makes it something completely different. What about an android? Maybe more cyborg than android as android is just a robot that looks like a human whereas cyborg is a human with mechanical parts although I don't either suit this scenario.
Assuming the human does more than assist the bot to get around sl75 subroutine comment then I don't think there is a name for it yet but the amount of human/computer interaction/cooperation then I don't think it will be long before someone does come up with a name for it.
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ablender
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Post by ablender on Nov 23, 2016 13:03:25 GMT
Maybe more cyborg than android as android is just a robot that looks like a human whereas cyborg is a human with mechanical parts although I don't either suit this scenario.
Assuming the human does more than assist the bot to get around sl75 subroutine comment then I don't think there is a name for it yet but the amount of human/computer interaction/cooperation then I don't think it will be long before someone does come up with a name for it.
Yes, you are correct. I've got the two terms mixed up.
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twoheads
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Post by twoheads on Nov 23, 2016 13:47:41 GMT
If the ONLY function a human has (not even necessarily the same human who set up the bot) is to solve a captcha, this would effectively be a subroutine within the bot (e.g. "GetValidatedCaptcha(...)"), and very much a "human-assisted bot". This touches on a technique used in the theory of computational complexity: An 'Oracle machine' is a theoretical construct used to solve seemingly intractable decision problems instantaneously. Our human is being used in an equivalent manner to solve the 'intractable' captcha as part of an otherwise much simpler task.
The 'GetValidatedCaptcha(...)' call is analogous to a call to an Oracle machine.
I like 0risk 's Human-assisted-bot term but I'm with toffeeboy that a human-assisted-bot is equivalent to human.
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