Why Can’t Robots Click The “I’m Not a Robot” Box On Websites?

If you’ve browsed the internet for any amount of time, you will likely come across a reCAPTCHA box. These boxes appear when you first enter certain websites and ask you to check a box to prove that you are not a robot. The box is labeled “I’m not a robot,” and everyone clicks without a second thought because they aren’t robots. Sometimes, clicking the box forces you to do a series of visual puzzles that ask you things like clicking on all of the images with a motorcycle in them or clicking on all of the pictures with streetlights in them. These basic tests lead people to believe that robots cannot do them. But that isn’t the case.