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Nice project, but: > An artificial intelligence [...] Really?

• chc 9y ago
  This certainly sounds like an AI application. Do you have some reason to think it isn't?
  • hk__2 9y ago
    It uses OCR then compares what it find with everything in the database. It doesn’t “learn” anything from what it finds; in fact you can’t even train it because it uses a static database.
  • nom 9y ago
    Yes, it is a necessary part of an AI, but I still wouldn't dare to call it an "AI Algorithm". Overuse of the term poisons the actual AI research field, it's only use is to aid click bait.
    • rsrsrs86 9y ago
      It is AI, it is just that not everything called AI is really interesting anymore. This should have attracted interest in the 80's.
• amelius 9y ago
  See also https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
  • tyingq 9y ago
    https://www.whatfontis.com/ https://www.whatfontis.com/ as well, though it presents an irritating survey you have to decline to see the results.
  • retox 9y ago
    What The Font has been good to me in this past.
• rendernos 9y ago
  The term "artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics "cognitive" functions that humans associate with other human minds. Understanding the shape in a image, reading the text from a photo can also be considered AI.
  • jacquesm 9y ago
    But that doesn't make it 'an AI'. That's a subtle difference but it matters.
  • nom 9y ago
    Extracting characters from an image and comparing them to a database of known fonts using a naive distance metric can be called AI? Really?
  • surajx 9y ago
    The key term here is mimics - to be classified as intelligent, the an algorithm should be able to significantly mimic human level intelligence in your domain. For example if your algorithm could read human handwriting and predict what font it was written in, or maybe what font it's closely related to, is something that's closer to the AI bandwagon.
• catshirt 9y ago
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