You don’t need a knife to make a knife, and things like OCR are different from AI (or from “AI”).
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Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 days agowhat’s the best alternative?
You’re asking for suggestions for an automatic document categorization tool that doesn’t use any automatic document categorization?
lambisio@feddit.cl 1 day ago
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Paperless and Papermerge have always done a lot more than just OCR. If that’s all they were, most people can do that already on the software that comes with their scanner. The core selling point of these applications is automatic categorization, sorting and tagging, and those have always relied on machine learning tools. Literally the first thing you do after setting Paperless up is start training the AI.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 20 hours ago
Yes, though that used to be discriminative AI, where now generative AI is used if I’m not mistaken.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I think you’re under the impression that the difference between those things is far greater than it actually is. Large Language Models work by developing statistical maps of associations. That’s discrimination. They’re a direct evolution of categorization models. The ability to associate a hash of a JPEG with “cat” is the same as the ability to associate “How are you?” with “Great, how about you?” It’s all associative mapping. LLMs are just the current leading edge of that technology. If you want to, for example, generate a list of tags that describe a document, an LLM is the best tool we currently have for doing that.
To put it another way, what you term “discriminative AI” is “generative AI.” It’s generating a category or list of categories in response to an input. That’s not functionally different than generating a sentence in response to a sentence, it’s just an order of magnitude less complex. You can argue terminology but the technology exists on an evolutionary curve, with no real hard boundaries.
TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 day ago
How about one that doesn’t use LLMs to code?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
Just fork it from before 2025 when Claude Code was released?