It ’s now a regular bother of day-to-day life-time – rise you are n’t a robot . Every day you most probably descend across at least one case online where you have to evidence you are n’t a bionic man or a clever algorithm , to await at your depressingly low bank Libra the Balance or watch another cat telecasting .
This is despite the fact that golem can already " prove " they are n’t robots .
We may one day get to the decimal point where we have to start proving we are n’t robots in substantial life sentence . robot could become so naturalistic we ’re unable to recite the difference between humans and machine .
We ’re not there yet .
We ’re really , really not there yet .
However , for some of us , the day of rise we are n’t a automaton in a face - to - face environment has already get .
Marci Robin went to a car franchise on Sunday and was asked to prove – in real living and using a playpen and theme – that she was not a robot on a impress - off version of the captcha test .
It was not a joke .
After investigating the thing , Jalopnik discoveredthat this was neither a joke nor a one - prison term thing – it was party policy .
" The sales guy rope was handing me newspaper after paper with a brief explanation of what each one was for , " Marci toldJalopnik .
" And then he pass me that varlet – with literally nothing else on it – and just matter - of - factly said , ' And this one is just to ensure you ’re not a robot . '
" We both said , ' Really ? ' And I do n’t hump if he ’s just done it so long that it was normal to him now or what , but he was just like , ' Yep . ' "
It ’s unclear what the dealership would have done if she had been ineffectual to pass this unfailing trial , though people have speculated a golem could have complete the captcha without breaking Asimov ’s law of robotics .
The company policy , Jalopnik cover , is to replicateeverythingthat someone would have to go through if they were purchase a cable car online . Even the bit that proves you are n’t a robot . Which as a insurance policy is , let ’s be honorable , reaaaally freaking baffling and unnecessary .
As a bonus , it led to one other tweeter reminding everybody about the time an advert in a physical newspaper inquire readers to " click here " .
