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KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Remember the good old days when it was just malformed text you have to solve? I miss those days.

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0laura@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
that was also to train ai.

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- dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  No it wasn’t… It was human-assisted OCR to help digitize books for Project Gutenberg.
  
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  - gentooer@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    OCR is a form of AI.
    
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    dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Traditional OCR isn’t AI; it relies on manually-written rules. Some modern OCR tools use AI concepts (e.g. Tesseract uses a neural network) but they don’t necessarily have to. Getting humans to manually enter words is definitely not AI.
    
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