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Eric Brand's avatar

great to have the update. the ChatGPT and OCR work is fascinating. anyone else doing this?

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Ezra Brand's avatar

Thanks! There's been a nice amount of discussion about using ChatGPT Vision for OCR of standard Latin characters, in printed Latin language works, from early Modern period.

This is partly what inspired me. I haven't seen much discussion of using it for OCR of non-Latin scripts, and none for Hebrew.

There's also been discussion of using it for translating cuneiform (already transcribed, not OCR).

There's also been related discussion of AI amplifying existing dominance of English, and current programming languages, at the expense of smaller languages. See, for example: https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-non-english-languages-ai-revolution/

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