Tomorrow at 8am CET I'm publishing a post/newsletter about how ChatGPT 4 solved that Captcha. Except it didn't.

A few things:

* We should stop being surprised by digital algorithms solving digital challenges faster than humans.
* Captchas were being solved by computers back in 2013. Eleven years is a long time for us to then get a tool like ChatGPT that could not solve it.
* Captchas were never easy to solve for humans (and by design impossible for many)
* One reason Captchas kept being pushed was because we were all being used as free labor by Google for training AI, since 2014. Before training AI, we were transcribing books.
* It's estimated that 500 human years are wasted every single day — just for us to 'prove our humanity'.
* Tech progress isn't as fast as everyone is led to believe. It's either heavily misrepresented, or sometimes we're just late at becoming aware.
* An AI trained on George Carlin's material wrote new material. Not. Because actually humans wrote it.
* I've also added a video of Musk promising full self-driving "next year", every year since 2014.

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