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[–] sweng@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (11 children)

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.

[–] GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 3 points 4 months ago (10 children)

ChatGPT can recognize text on images already.

[–] sweng@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

At horrendous expense, yes. Using it for OCR makes little sense. And compared to just sending the text directly, even OCR is expensive.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My phone can recognize text on images. How hard could it be to send that data to an AI?

[–] sweng@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

How many billion times do you generally do that, and how is battery life after?

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sweng@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Yes, and what I'm saying is that it would be expensive compared to not having to do it.

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