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Are there any uses for AI yet that aren't either:

1. Doing things humans do for fun. 2. Doing things that AI is horribly terrible at.

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There's a ton of applications for AI. Back when I was at Spotify, I co-authored Basic Pitch (https://basicpitch.spotify.com/), an audio-to-midi library. There are a ton of uses for AI outside of what's heavily publicized.


Medical field, spotting things

Autonomous drones

Financial fraud detection

Scheduling of trains/buses/etc

I personally do like chatbots but you probably don't


the only chatbot for me is smarterchild


I feel like that sentence aged me.


Thank you. Because I was just shaking my head "kids these days"




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