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Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

Skill issue. I used AI to create a web application that extracts the serial number from an image into text. This allows us to just simply take a picture rather than than having to type the serial number manually while using a magnifying glass. Significantly speeding up the process and lowering error rate.

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Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
indeed, anyone with skills would have whipped that up in noetime without AI… or use any of the many apps that already does that

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- iamericandre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  For real, you can copy text out of images on most modern phones so this isn’t really an issue anymore
  
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  - jaykrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yea, you can do that, but have fun doing that 1000 times a day. Manually copying was the problem, I created a system that automated that process.
    
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  - DivineDev@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Ok but how does the phone extract the text? The fact that a modern phone can do it does not mean there’s no AI involved
    
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    Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    OCR is a very, very old AI system that for decades we’ve scanned documents and saved to pdf with. The old system is far from perfect, but it does work well enough in most cases. If an AI recognition model can do the same job with less mistakes, that is an improvement.
    
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- jaykrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Then why was I the one to do it if anyone could have done it?
  
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  - TheBat@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect
    
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    jaykrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    If I have a low ability in that specific area then why was I able to achieve success?
    
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AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You could’ve just looked for off the shelf OCR software and it would probably be better, no LLM needed. OCR has been around for far longer than the current LLM bubble.

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- jaykrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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  - ganryuu@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You’re reading text from a picture. That is OCR.
    
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    jaykrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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- jaykrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I did, it wasn’t better. What “off the shelf” OCR software are you talking about? I tried EasyOCR and PaddleOCR. Llama 4 Maverick has been more accurate.
  
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