Am I the only one that doesn't care about software beating humans at video games?
I'm sure there's some sort of useful learning being done here by the people that created the software that might some day help them create software that can better predict what is needed for a specific application but to me it just feels like entities like OpenAI and Google researching this predictive software are just wasting obscene amounts of money.
How about train the stuff on better typed OCR? Better handwriting OCR? This will have actual commercial application.
Why not make something for grading papers. English papers, math homework, etc? Start at a first grade level and as you train the software up move on to higher levels of education. My fiance is a high school teacher, she currently only teaches math but previously has done math and English, she sits there grading papers off the clock while watching television in the evenings and on the weekends... MANY high school teachers are in this situation, think of how much free time could be reclaimed by training this instead of teaching software how to beat humans in video games!!!
This would even help teachers have more time during school hours to help struggling students, if you aren't trying to grade papers in class while students are doing work you free up time that you could actively be assisting one or more students. Instead, these "AI" researchers keep training software to be the best at video games... facepalm
Then take that and apply it to something like my job. I clear international freight through customs for a living, I look at paperwork all day and then have to determine what tariff number I should use for something (cell phone 8517120050, silver ring over 1.50 USD 7113115000) and classify every single line on an invoice by using familiarity with the tariff schedule/description(s) on the invoice/any other supporting documentation/customer profiles for customers that have paid to have product databases on file with us. My employer, we do thousands of these things a day and have to keep everything for several years (5 IIRC) in the evening CBP or any other OGA wants to see it during that time period.
So take that huge, pre-existing, data set like that, identify which shipments were classified correctly and which were not, and then let the software have a stab at trying to do it with that better OCR you created.
Then, you know, actually get rid of (or drastically reduce) soul crushing, mind-numbing, highly repetitive digital paperwork jobs like mine.
I'm sure there's some sort of useful learning being done here by the people that created the software that might some day help them create software that can better predict what is needed for a specific application but to me it just feels like entities like OpenAI and Google researching this predictive software are just wasting obscene amounts of money.
How about train the stuff on better typed OCR? Better handwriting OCR? This will have actual commercial application.
Why not make something for grading papers. English papers, math homework, etc? Start at a first grade level and as you train the software up move on to higher levels of education. My fiance is a high school teacher, she currently only teaches math but previously has done math and English, she sits there grading papers off the clock while watching television in the evenings and on the weekends... MANY high school teachers are in this situation, think of how much free time could be reclaimed by training this instead of teaching software how to beat humans in video games!!!
This would even help teachers have more time during school hours to help struggling students, if you aren't trying to grade papers in class while students are doing work you free up time that you could actively be assisting one or more students. Instead, these "AI" researchers keep training software to be the best at video games... facepalm
Then take that and apply it to something like my job. I clear international freight through customs for a living, I look at paperwork all day and then have to determine what tariff number I should use for something (cell phone 8517120050, silver ring over 1.50 USD 7113115000) and classify every single line on an invoice by using familiarity with the tariff schedule/description(s) on the invoice/any other supporting documentation/customer profiles for customers that have paid to have product databases on file with us. My employer, we do thousands of these things a day and have to keep everything for several years (5 IIRC) in the evening CBP or any other OGA wants to see it during that time period.
So take that huge, pre-existing, data set like that, identify which shipments were classified correctly and which were not, and then let the software have a stab at trying to do it with that better OCR you created.
Then, you know, actually get rid of (or drastically reduce) soul crushing, mind-numbing, highly repetitive digital paperwork jobs like mine.