Does AI look at a name as a picture of a name and then compare......
Does AI look at a name as a picture of a name and then compare it to thousands of similar name pictures in order to present a correct name for written names?
For typed names, does AI read each letter in a name and then compare the the result to similar typed names to present a correct name?
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@Smyth MJ Ok then I think the the best answer lies in Adrian Bruce1 comment above "that the patterns used started simple and have gradually built up over the years and the software is looking at shapes (of words) without understanding it's a word [or 'name' ]that it's looking at"
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Bear in mind that computer systems have been reading text since the 1980s (at least) when it was referred to as Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The difference then was that the only characters it could successfully read, each had to be formed in a specific box on the paper but the technology was sufficiently reliable for British Railways to use it for payroll input (I was there…). And nobody had heard of AI then - it was all recognised using algorithms to detect the shapes and patterns. Websites like TROVE (Australian newspapers) started with OCR, not AI.
Now, somewhere along the line it's pretty clear that AI has been invoked to recognise handwritten words - not just names. I suspect that the idea of comparing each "picture" of a "word" to lots of individual patterns is too simplistic - I think that the patterns used started simple and have gradually built up over the years and the software is looking at shapes (of words) without understanding it's a word that it's looking at, and classifying it against all similar shapes that it has in its data banks. It may be a more useful analogy is a human being recognising a face - it's the overall effect that we look for first, and I think that's how AI pattern recognition works. (What's worrying is that we don't always understand how certain AI systems do the work that they do… And you really don't want to know how AI systems "do" arithmetic 🤔)
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@Smyth MJ Are you referring to how AI is used in Quick Name Review and Full Name Review specifically?
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Yes
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