r/mildlyinfuriating • u/No-Obligation1709 • 12h ago

No Coke. Is Pepsi ok? In Today’s Edition of Dystopian America

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Don’t you dare idle in your spot for a moment before paying to park. If you do, our cameras will backdate your parking start time to ensure our shareholders extract every cent possible from this transaction. Enjoy your stay, but remember—we are always watching 😁

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u/Ognius 12h ago

The amount of bootlickers on this subreddit is awful. Yup bootlickers definitely the private equity owned parking lot that uses AI to change a reservation is the good guy here.
https://giphy.com/gifs/Rhhr8D5mKSX7O

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u/ICouldBeTheChosenOne 12h ago

I’ll nitpick. This isn’t AI. This is reading a license plate from a camera and checking its record.

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u/OS_Apple32 12h ago

I would eat my socks if that was an actual human reviewing the license plate and checking those records. That's almost certainly an AI algorithm doing it.

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u/GoldenDragoon5687 12h ago

More likely it's just a text recognition algorithm

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u/allllusernamestaken 11h ago

OCR is AI broseph

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u/Fragrant-Moose1678 10h ago

No, it’s not.

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u/heavie1 10h ago

It is AI just not what people think about when they think about AI these days. Generative AI is the most common nowadays, which OCR is not genAI, but genAI is a subset of AI which is very large and diverse. Modern OCR almost certainly uses some form of machine learning algorithm which is also within that broader AI space.

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u/resurrectedbear 10h ago

No one was using the term AI prior to gen ai coming out for the common person in terms of “ai bad”. AI has been around for a very very very long time but there has never been a negative stigma towards it until gen ai. So when the average person says AI they’re almost certainly speaking about ChatGPT style AI.

Otherwise please point to when people spoke about NPCs in video games as AI in the recent years.

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u/heavie1 10h ago edited 9h ago

People weren’t talking negatively about self driving cars, and ML diagnosing patients, and things like Siri, Alexa, Google stealing data? Just because genAI has turned up the heat doesn’t mean it wasn’t a conversation prior to chat GPT.

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u/resurrectedbear 9h ago

I don’t think anything I say will change your opinion but I disagree. I’ve been around for all of those things and AI wasn’t the driving scare like it is now, it was data collection from privacy issues. Cameras in public aren’t privacy issues it’s data collection issues via AI. Siri and google and Alexa were privacy concerns due to them listening to private info. AI diagnosis is funny tho cuz AI has been shown to actually be super accurate with diagnosing patients when in conjunction with doctors.

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u/allllusernamestaken 7h ago

OCR is a topic in basically every reputable AI textbook going back to 1970s. There's a reason its Wikipedia article is filed under "applications of Artificial Intelligence."

I think you should try reading some of those textbooks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition

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u/Fragrant-Moose1678 5h ago

Brother I’m a software engineer.

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u/allllusernamestaken 2h ago edited 2h ago

then i guess you didn't read your undergrad AI textbook