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Compare voice recognition in 2001 to 2021.
by cma 6y ago
Compare voice recognition in 2001 to 2021.
- nielsole 6y agoI tend to forget how unthinkable good image recognition was just ten years ago: e.g. https://xkcd.com/1425/ https://xkcd.com/1425/
- sxp 6y agoThat wasn't even 10 years ago. The comic was 9/24/2014: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks I was working on Google Image Search at the time and recognizing photos of animals was bleeding edge tech. It's now a AI 101 project using an off-the-shelf DNN stack.
- divbzero 6y agoYes, or how truck driving was cited as an example of a job difficult to replace with computers.
- AussieWog93 6y agoTo be honest with you, if you look at the technology as a whole, I prefer what we had in 2001. Back then it was completely unusable (as opposed to now, where it's only borderline unusable), but at least it wasn't shoved down your throat by smartphone manufacturers and Google.
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- AussieWog93 6y agoI'm assuming you're a non-native speaker? The definite article "the" indicates that I'm talking specifically about voice recognition technology. Of course other areas have improved peoples' lives in meaningful ways, such as C++11 and video streaming (although I'd argue Zoom is worse than the telephone in almost every instance it's deployed).
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- fsflover 6y agoIn 2021, you have a possibility to buy GNU/Linux smartphones and abandon Google and Apple.
- potatoman22 6y agoYeah, let's just stop all technological progress. That way it can't be exponential!