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I Use AI 100 Times per Hour

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Re: I Use AI 100 Times per Hour

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(I have not done the math:) If you factor in 20-30 years of education that each typical white collar human requires as an entry point into their field, and the energy that goes into that, and the energy that goes into the continued upkeep of that human, the billions of seconds you can shave off menial work by pushing it all to an increasingly efficient AI are probably easily worth it, from a purely ecological perspective.

Re: I Use AI 100 Times per Hour

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You have no idea how many times you use it. Maps? Recommendation systems (the algo)? Other optimizations? BTW, to the best of my knowledge, dictation still has a high error rate.

Whisper (OpenAI 2022) and other recent dictation models are rather good. Whisper automatically punctuates sentences and usually gets just a few words wrong in my experience.

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Why is a usual STT (speech-to-text) called AI?. (fixed typo)

Probably because AI is a misnomer. Machine learning is a better name, but even than it is pretty lacking.

What is generally called AI in common speech is pretty much a class of non-linear statistical models which require some training to generate weights which are than used to fit the model. Most people that know anything about statistics knows this, so it is fine actually. Misnomers exists in all industries and all science, and we just deal with them.

Re: I Use AI 100 Times per Hour

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You have no idea how many times you use it. Maps? Recommendation systems (the algo)? Other optimizations? BTW, to the best of my knowledge, dictation still has a high error rate.

Whisper (OpenAI 2022) and other recent dictation models are rather good. Whisper automatically punctuates sentences and usually gets just a few words wrong in my experience.

A few words per...?
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