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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by amatecha on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:59PM (#38919613)
Maybe not exactly what was being referred to, but one of Duolingo's founders, Luis von Ahn, is one of the inventors of CAPTCHA:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-39200-9_18

https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/CAPTCHA_Using_Hard_AI_Probl... (direct PDF download)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

RE: the computer game thing, https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/985692.985733

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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by pests on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @05:43AM (#38924555)
Wait, CAPTCHAs don't generate or capture any data. It prevents computer automated systems, which were a huge pain at the time. Google then came around and released reCAPTCHA which was using originally books for Google Translate but later Street view photos for Google Maps. That was when dara collection and learning was introduced.
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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by dataangel on Saturday January 13, 2024 @04:52PM (#38984971)
reCAPTCHA is his baby.
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