Why can't a robot just click 'I'm not a robot'? Turns out the answer is part of a bigger story about being human.

The box test isn't really about the box! It actually tracks other things about your behavior, like how you move your mouse while checking the box.

The technology is called reCAPTCHA – “Fully Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and People Apart”. And these days, these tests aren't about figuring out what makes humans BETTER than robots. They are about what makes people human. It's the same question we've been thinking about for centuries.

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