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> Today, the USPS’s OCR technology can read handwritten mail at nearly 98 percent accuracy That seems quite low compared to other uses of AI. Imagine a self d
by amelius 1y ago
> Today, the USPS’s OCR technology can read handwritten mail at nearly 98 percent accuracy
That seems quite low compared to other uses of AI. Imagine a self driving car taking a decision every second with 98 percent accuracy. After a minute of driving there would be a 70% probability of making at least one bad decision.
- toast0 1y agoYeah, but my penmanship is awful, and I'm not alone. However, machine printed addresses are the norm, and address barcodes for large mailers are very common. Manual assistance on 2% of handwritten mail isn't that much manual assistance.