OCR, handwriting recognition and other more niche computer vision. ML computer vision is a step change vs classical methods in many cases (and no better in othe

OCR, handwriting recognition and other more niche computer vision. ML computer vision is a step change vs classical methods in many cases (and no better in others just a lot of window dressing) The "bombastic news headline" stuff often supports improvements in real applications too. It's just that it ends up getting shown off with party-trick type models that look cool but don't go anywhere, adding to the boom and bust cycle (for example search HN for "generative" AI to see a mini hype bubble in full swing: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=generative&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... )