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If you were able to write one 20 years ago, I dare say an LLM could whip one up super-fast. Or just search the internet and tell you where to find one. One of
by handoflixue 4mo ago
If you were able to write one 20 years ago, I dare say an LLM could whip one up super-fast. Or just search the internet and tell you where to find one.
One of the risks of LLMs is that a lot of tasks go from "an expert could do this easily given a few weeks" to "anyone who thinks to ask an LLM can do this easily and get results the same day"
- jubilanti 4mo ago[flagged]
- tough 4mo agowhy wouldn't codex or claude just reach for whatever FOSS https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr
- jubilanti 4mo ago[flagged]
- microgpt 4mo agoYes, an ALPR is basically just a glorified [thing that an ALPR does]
- SR2Z 4mo agoI honestly can't tell if this is ragebait or you believe this. My friend, if you have a database of license plates extracted from single images taken by multiple cameras, YOU ARE TRACKING UNIQUE VEHICLES ACROSS A REGION. Terabytes of data don't matter because you don't need to search terabytes, you need to search a few MB of text data. You don't even have to store the original video.
- assimpleaspossi 4mo agoBut you don't have such a database.
- therealdrag0 4mo agoYou’re moving the goalposts. The original point of this thread is that Flock AI technology is hardly needed to efficiently search traditional video footage for license plates.
- tough 4mo agoDropbox stock is trading at 50% of its initial price 5y ago when it went public, maybe the public markets also don't understand the difference between rsync and Dropbox.
- malcolmgreaves 4mo agoOk, so you don’t understand that ALPR is two commodity technologies: object detection and OCR.
- handoflixue 4mo ago> Assuming they have access to terabytes of regional video surveillance but don't have their own compute besides what the LLM will buy for them Amazing how you can move the goalposts to make things impossible, isn't it? Where in the world did "without compute" come from? Are they not even allowed a decent desktop computer?
- nullsanity 4mo ago[dead]
- Manuel_D 4mo agoAutomated License plate readers are a half century old at this point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recognition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recogni...
- maccard 4mo ago> One of the risks of LLMs is that a lot of tasks go from "an expert could do this easily given a few weeks" to "anyone who thinks to ask an LLM can do this easily and get results the same day" By that logic, all problems are solved with LLMs, though.
- handoflixue 4mo agoHonestly, there's plenty of experts worried about exactly that. But if you'd prefer, feel free to mentally scope my claim to the domain of "things we already know LLMS can do, like copying previously solved software problems"
- antonvs 4mo agoThe claim was "a lot of tasks", which is certainly true. It wasn't "all tasks".
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4mo agoThis point is moot, though. The claim either implicitly includes the task under discussion or it's a non sequitur.
- antonvs 4mo agoAn LLM could certainly write you an OpenCV program to do this task. I’ve used them for exactly that kind of work. The moot non sequitur is yours.
- abalashov 4mo agoI dare say it might require a little more knowledge than _anyone_ would possess.