Answers.Body: <p>At this time, Google is aggressively pursuing research into AI of many sorts. All AI at this point is constrained by the size and accuracy of available training data. Getting human curated data is expensive and time consuming. Crowdsourcing through Captcha gets access to that without paying directly. </p>
  
  <p>Why roads specifically? It can hardly be a coincidence that Google's holding company also owns a self driving car company Waymo. They need machines to learn what road signs look like in real life, so that they can respond to them. </p>
  
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Body: <p>I am wondering where Google uses the result from deep learning of reCaptcha (how can a system that knows to recognize street signs is useful somewhere? how they profit from it?)</p>
  
Tags: <intelligence-testing><google><captcha>
Title: How is the reCaptcha useful for Google?
UserDisplayName: hyperscience
ThreadText: # How is the reCaptcha useful for Google?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-10-13)
  
  I am wondering where Google uses the result from deep learning of reCaptcha (how can a system that knows to recognize street signs is useful somewhere? how they profit from it?)
  
  **Tags:** intelligence-testing, google, captcha
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-10-13. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
  
  At this time, Google is aggressively pursuing research into AI of many sorts. All AI at this point is constrained by the size and accuracy of available training data. Getting human curated data is expensive and time consuming. Crowdsourcing through Captcha gets access to that without paying directly.
  
  Why roads specifically? It can hardly be a coincidence that Google's holding company also owns a self driving car company Waymo. They need machines to learn what road signs look like in real life, so that they can respond to them.
  
  
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