Google announced today it will soon be replacing those pervasive CAPTCHAs with a less annoying form of identity confirmation - a single click on a checkbox to prove a user is not a robot, reports TechCrunch.

The tech giant posted on its blog today that it is "rolling out a new API" to greatly enhance and simplify the confirmation process - at least for those websites that use Google's reCAPTCHA service.

"For years, we've prompted users to confirm they aren't robots by asking them to read distorted text and type it into a box," writes Vinay Shet, Google's Product Manager for reCAPTCHA. "But, we figured it would be easier to just directly ask our users whether or not they are robots-so, we did!"

"On websites using this new API, a significant number of users will be able to securely and easily verify they're human without actually having to solve a CAPTCHA. Instead, with just a single click, they'll confirm they are not a robot," Shet explains in his post.

Google's new system, dubbed as "No Captcha reCaptchas", will both be available and easier to use on desktop PCs and mobile devices, according to VentureBeat's Jordan Novet.

Novet adds, however, that users should not see this as Google taking a step backward when it comes to web security. On the other hand, Google is actually using artificial intelligence to develop their simplified reCAPTCHA service.

"While the new reCAPTCHA API may sound simple, there is a high degree of sophistication behind that modest checkbox," writes Shet.

"Our research recently showed that today's Artificial Intelligence technology can solve even the most difficult variant of distorted text at 99.8% accuracy. Thus distorted text, on its own, is no longer a dependable test."

As a response, Google developed what they call an "Advanced Risk Analysis" system that can determine if a user is indeed human or not, based on the user's entire engagement with CAPTCHA - before, during, and after.

Shet also reports that early adopters like Wordpress, SnapChat, and Humble Bundle (among others) are already "seeing great results."

"In the last week, more than 60% of WordPress' traffic and more than 80% of Humble Bundle's traffic on reCAPTCHA encountered the No CAPTCHA experience-users got to these sites faster."