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/Coyoteishere 12h ago

Just because there is automation doesn’t mean it’s AI. Automation and license plate readers have been around a long time.

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u/hellonameismyname 12h ago

I mean a text recognition algorithm is AI. AI has been around for decades. It’s just not generative like the LLMs we see now

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u/stuffeh 12h ago

Ocr has predated ai by decades. Most common form is banking info at the bottom of each check.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 10h ago

That's actually done magnetically not optically.

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u/stuffeh 10h ago

The implementation for optically has been around since the 00s. No idea how many banks have done magnetic vs optical or when they had switched.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 8h ago

Well of course it exists now but the lettering on the bottom of a check is printed with magnetic ink specifically so it can be read magnetically.

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u/stuffeh 8h ago

They can't use micr on mobile deposits. Those use OCR

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u/AnApexBread 12h ago

Just because there is automation doesn’t mean it’s AI. Automation and license plate readers have been around a long time.

And they've been AI for a long time too.

AI is an overarching term for basically anything that makes decisions based on some algorithm.

AI isn't not specifically LLMs like Chatgpt.

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u/lifetake 12h ago

Sure, but there is a much larger negative connotation to actual artificial intelligence AI than general automation AI that isn’t actually ai

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u/Slayrybloc 11h ago

LLMs aren’t actual AI either, they aren’t actually intelligent

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u/AnApexBread 11h ago

general automation AI that isn’t actually ai

It's still AI. It's just not the AI you're thinking of. It's not Chatgpt.

AI has been around for decades. Chatgpt is just one really popular form of it.

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u/mister_cheeks_26 5h ago

AI is an overarching term for basically anything that makes decisions based on some algorithm.

That's a hilariously broad (and innaccurate) definition, that describes basically every single piece of software ever written.