4 ms·

Google Lens is able to read my handwriting, and I think the tech for it has been around for 10+ years.

• lolinder 4y ago
  That's why this is the last facility that does this job—all the other ones are now unnecessary because machines can process enough of the mail.
• woodruffw 4y ago
  My handwriting is not your handwriting, nor is it millions of other Americans' handwritings! There's also plenty of edge cases: letters get wet, they smudge, get torn or folded, and so forth. A postal system that processes 420 million letters a day[1] with a 99% true positive rate on OCR still needs to divert 4.2 million letters for manual review. [1]: https://facts.usps.com/one-day/ https://facts.usps.com/one-day/
  • quartesixte 4y ago
    And as a postal service, writing off 4.2mil letters is absolutely unacceptable so thus we must dedicate the resources to mitigate this tail risk. This is a common pattern, and why I think AI risk is overstated…unless we suddenly decide to start wholesale writing off the consequences of tail risk.
    • jjeaff 4y ago
      It will be little solace for the 98% of employees that get laid of by AI to know that at least 2% if their co-workers remain employed. In other words, AI doesn't have to do anything perfectly to replace a large percentage of the workforce.
• beAbU 4y ago
  "Cannot reproduce the bug on my local development environment. Ticket closed"