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No, it's not even close to OCR systems, which are based on analyzing points in a grid for each character stroke and comparing them with known characters. Just for one thing, OCR systems are deterministic. Deterministic. Look it up.





OCR system use vision models and as such they can make mistakes. They don't sample but they produce a distribution of probability over words like LLMs.

One of my worries for the coming years is that people will forget what deterministic actually means. It terrifies me!



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