Comment on German parliament will stop using fax machines
Butterbee@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
“fax machines are at odds with a world embracing artificial intelligence.” So bring on the fax machines! MORE fax machines!
Comment on German parliament will stop using fax machines
Butterbee@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
“fax machines are at odds with a world embracing artificial intelligence.” So bring on the fax machines! MORE fax machines!
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
I don’t see how that makes sense as a statement, an ai with access to a 56k modem can send a fax. It feels like they’re just using ai as a buzzword.
smeg@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
It reads to me more just as a statement of contrast, as in ‘we’re in a world of incredibly high-tech new technology, we shouldn’t still be using something from the Victorian era!’
denial@feddit.de 5 weeks ago
Of cause that is a BS reason. But they should have stopped using fax machines 20 years ago. How can any reason they give why they have to stop now be any other than BS.
sweng@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
The issue is not sending, it is receiving. With a fax you need to do some OCR to extract the text, which you then can feed into e.g an AI.
GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 5 weeks ago
ChatGPT can recognize text on images already.
sweng@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
At horrendous expense, yes. Using it for OCR makes little sense.