Comment by AdieuToLogic
15 hours ago
> This is all very cool so I’m not trying to be dismissive. In a lot of ways, giving a hobby out as a way to participate in the national archives is an end in itself.
> But…computers can definitely do this way better, right?
No.
Cursive writing is analog and fluid, lacking consistency across authors and often inconsistent by an individual author as well. When done well, it could be classified as its own art form. When done poorly, it can resemble the path walked by a chicken on meth.
iPad seems to do OK, but it has more to go by since it has the timing and pressure as well as the written text.
Current LLMs can absolutely do this as well as you can, probably better.
> Current LLMs can absolutely do this as well as you can, probably better.
This is obviously disprovable, in that if they could, they would, and this call to action would not exist.
That's quite a lot of faith you have in them.
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