> Even by today's loose definition of "AI" I'm having trouble making that connection. I guess the OCR is based on machine learning?
It's long been noticed that every time AI researchers figure out how to do a thing, it goes from "this is impossible SciFi nonsense" to "that's not real AI".
It's weird for me to actually encounter people doing this.
I remember when OCR was impossible, at any decent quality level, for AI. We used this to stop bots logging into forums, with a thing we called a "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" or CAPTCHA for short. It started off as text, then the text got increasingly distorted until most humans had trouble reading it, then it became house numbers, then it became "click all pictures of XYZ", before mostly disappearing into analytics seeing where you hovered your mouse cursor and which other websites you visited.
It's long been noticed that every time AI researchers figure out how to do a thing, it goes from "this is impossible SciFi nonsense" to "that's not real AI".
It's weird for me to actually encounter people doing this.
I remember when OCR was impossible, at any decent quality level, for AI. We used this to stop bots logging into forums, with a thing we called a "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" or CAPTCHA for short. It started off as text, then the text got increasingly distorted until most humans had trouble reading it, then it became house numbers, then it became "click all pictures of XYZ", before mostly disappearing into analytics seeing where you hovered your mouse cursor and which other websites you visited.