Looks like they do little more than just check for a Google cookie [1].
[1]. https://www.blackhat.com/docs/asia-16/materials/asia-16-Siva...
edit: still, it's far better than the previous state of captchas. I'm glad they did this. But it's like for anything to be considered "advanced" or "good" in tech lately, it has to have been powered by "machine learning".