akosgheri@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 5 months agoGerman parliament will stop using fax machineswww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10
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minus-squaresweng@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoThe issue is not sending, it is receiving. With a fax you need to do some OCR to extract the text, which you then can feed into e.g an AI.
minus-squareGenosseFlosse@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoChatGPT can recognize text on images already.
minus-squaresweng@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-25 months agoAt horrendous expense, yes. Using it for OCR makes little sense. And compared to just sending the text directly, even OCR is expensive.
minus-squareDdCno1@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI was about to say, you could do serviceable OCR on a 486, which illustrates just how little processing power is needed for conventional approaches compared to this hallucinating AI nonsense.
minus-squareMongostein@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoMy phone can recognize text on images. How hard could it be to send that data to an AI?
minus-squaresweng@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 months agoHow many billion times do you generally do that, and how is battery life after?
minus-squareMongostein@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoI wouldn’t do it on my phone. 🙄 What I’m saying is that it would probably be fairly easy to incorporate an already existing technology in to an AI.
minus-squaresweng@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoYes, and what I’m saying is that it would be expensive compared to not having to do it.
The issue is not sending, it is receiving. With a fax you need to do some OCR to extract the text, which you then can feed into e.g an AI.
ChatGPT can recognize text on images already.
At horrendous expense, yes. Using it for OCR makes little sense. And compared to just sending the text directly, even OCR is expensive.
I was about to say, you could do serviceable OCR on a 486, which illustrates just how little processing power is needed for conventional approaches compared to this hallucinating AI nonsense.
My phone can recognize text on images. How hard could it be to send that data to an AI?
How many billion times do you generally do that, and how is battery life after?
I wouldn’t do it on my phone. 🙄
What I’m saying is that it would probably be fairly easy to incorporate an already existing technology in to an AI.
Yes, and what I’m saying is that it would be expensive compared to not having to do it.