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It’s a bit too early and premature. There needs to be an alternative to fax first.
Email.
Fax is not secure, never has been and most businesses are using e-fax which is email with extra steps.
This particular dinosaur actually deserves to be Chicxulub’ed.
Please for the love of god abandon fax. I’m tired of troubleshooting it.
Chicxulub’ed
New word of the day.
I think the the previous post was sarcasm. :)
“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.
Of cause that is a BS reason. But they should have stopped using fax machines 20 years ago. How can any reason they give why they have to stop now be any other than BS.
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.
ChatGPT can recognize text on images already.
At horrendous expense, yes. Using it for OCR makes little sense. And compared to just sending the text directly, even OCR is expensive.
I was about to say, you could do serviceable OCR on a 486, which illustrates just how little processing power is needed for conventional approaches compared to this hallucinating AI nonsense.
My phone can recognize text on images. How hard could it be to send that data to an AI?
How many billion times do you generally do that, and how is battery life after?
I wouldn’t do it on my phone. 🙄
What I’m saying is that it would probably be fairly easy to incorporate an already existing technology in to an AI.
Note that the proposal was sent by fax
Tbh I was surprised they’re still using them
laughs in Japanese bureaucracy
Fuck me it’s now actually the end times.
I agree with the move; it reduces the unnecessary waste of time, space, and material. While some things should have physical copies, not everything needs to.
Regarding the “AI” part: the author is simply highlighting that BRD is sticking to really old technology, in a world going further steps beyond. Don’t think too hard on that.
How common is the terminology “red tape”? I had to look it up. Is it more than “bureaucracy” would fill?
It refers to bureaucracy but specifically in a negative way, as in unnecessary and obstructive bureaucracy that just serves as busy work between people and getting what they want or need from the government in terms of services or approvals.
“Red tape” is a pretty common idiom here. It’s similar to bureaucracy, but it’s more like the useless stuff you have to deal with in order to do something.
Say you want to update your driver’s license and you need to bring in some ID and fill out a form. That’s regular bureaucracy.
If you want to feed the homeless so you have to get a permit for an event, prove your volunteers have food-handling training, fill out forms for your volunteers, notify the police that there will be a public gathering, schedule an inspection of the facility, etc, that’s red tape.
Another way to look at it might be that Bureaucracy describes the system in which offices communicate with each other, and Red Tape are the tasks/forms/whatever you have to complete in order to get what you want approved.
