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Re:Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio by ansk on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @01:50PM (#41503554)
Imagine reading a math or programming textbook where each statement was true with probability 0.95.
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Re:Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio by sno129 on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @02:03PM (#41503719)
Plenty of mistakes in textbooks and research articles, it's possible the probability is already even lower.
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Re:Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio by slashdave on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @03:00PM (#41504287)
That just means you are adding errors on top of existing ones, hardly an improvement
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Re:Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio by throwthrowuknow on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @02:51PM (#41504199)
errata. Also real humans often make mistakes in live interviews. The biggest difference is that eventually these fake humans will have lower error rates than real ones.
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Re:Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio by contagiousflow on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @05:35PM (#41505838)
> eventually these fake humans will have lower error rates than real ones

Source?

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