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says a lot about the overhyping of AI and stuff that cut and paste and screenshots remains the most basic way to extract information out of an arbitrary medium
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it's hard for the same reasons eldercare or childcare robotics is hard... highly individual, messy needs where a careless or movement will destroy what's valuable, it's mindful grinding, the residual complexity in a difficult situation that's just hard to algorithmically scale
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I've been trying and it is at once better than I expected and worse than I expected. It just takes stuff out of one WORNhole and puts it into a slightly better WORNhole.
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For whatever reason, they decided to index ALL photographs, I see no option to just index the photographs with text in them, or some such filter. So now I have an app with hundreds of random photos that the app thinks I'm going to annotate. NO. I JUST WANT TEXT SCREENSHOTS.
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And I don't want them in a damn app, I want them sent to my email or a spreadsheet or a doc where I can do something slightly more general with them besides search.
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In general, I think personal data processing apps should aim to be highly lean and store nothing. They should just pipe the most general, manually usable information to the most general processing software (text, spreadsheet)
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The equivalent in robotics is that we have highly sophisticated welding and assembly robotics, but home robotics hasn't advanced much beyond a fairly crappy vacuum cleaner and a temperamental "smart" thermostat
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The closest we've come to the holy grail of consumer grade personal robotics -- a diaper-changing/smart bedpan eldercare robot -- is automated cat litter boxes (we have one... lifechanger; took us from litter changing every 1-2 days to weekly emptying)
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