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The old handwriting recognition on my phone made me smile for a second

I was cleaning out some old files on my laptop last night and found a scanned note from 2012 that I'd put through one of those early OCR apps. It came out so garbled, like it read a shopping list as a poem. Looking at that now, after using the new vision models that can read a doctor's messy script across three languages, it hit me how far we've come in a little over a decade. Does anyone else ever pull up their old AI outputs just to see how silly they look now?

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holly_garcia29d ago

Wondering if the garble actually captured something real, like how we talk versus how we write. My old voice-to-text from 2013 turned "meet you at the corner store" into "meat chew at the coroner's door" and honestly it sounded more like a threat than a note. The weird part is those mistakes show what the machine was guessing about, word shapes, sounds, context, all the stuff it couldn't hold together yet. Now the errors are rare enough that we lost that little window into how the whole thing works under the hood.

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