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minus-squaresweng@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 year agoAt horrendous expense, yes. Using it for OCR makes little sense. And compared to just sending the text directly, even OCR is expensive.
minus-squareMongostein@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year 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-21 year agoHow many billion times do you generally do that, and how is battery life after?
minus-squareMongostein@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year 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-up1·1 year agoYes, and what I’m saying is that it would be expensive compared to not having to do it.
minus-squareDdCno1@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year 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.
At horrendous expense, yes. Using it for OCR makes little sense. And compared to just sending the text directly, even OCR is expensive.
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.
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.