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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.

a month ago by Some_Emo_Chick to c/technology

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cley_faye 112 points a month ago

Look, if you know a way to convert a PDF to text with less than 500GB of VRAM and 2000W of power used for twenty seconds, I'm all ears.

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uszo165 24 points a month ago

Runs on anything that runs Linux:

NAME
       pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.03)

SYNOPSIS
       pdftotext [options] PDF-file [text-file]

DESCRIPTION
       Pdftotext converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text.

       Pdftotext reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes a text file, text-file.  If text-file is not speci‐
       fied,  pdftotext  converts file.pdf to file.txt.  If text-file is ´-', the text is sent to stdout.  If
       PDF-file is ´-', it reads the PDF file from stdin.

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MasterBlaster 8 points a month ago

Upvoted for the sheer mic drop moment. Well done.

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cley_faye 3 points a month ago

I hope this is sarcasm >_<

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Dremor 2 points a month ago

Foes it works on scanned image PDF?

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dil 1 point a month ago

Ai agents use tools like this tho?

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dil 1 point a month ago

I was suprised when chatgpt used ffmpeg and yt-dlp to check a frame of a video idk if it actually suceeded or lied

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