akosgheri@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 4 months agoGerman parliament will stop using fax machineswww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down10
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minus-squareButterbee (She/Her)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·4 months ago“fax machines are at odds with a world embracing artificial intelligence.” So bring on the fax machines! MORE fax machines!
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·4 months agoI 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.
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 months agoIt 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!’
minus-squaresweng@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoThe 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.
“fax machines are at odds with a world embracing artificial intelligence.” So bring on the fax machines! MORE fax machines!
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.
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!’
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.