The faster this train runs, the bigger the bang once it hits the wall that isn't going anywhere.
We could have accomplished a lot of good with those resources.
We could have accomplished a lot of good with those resources.
Speech to text using whisper is almost perfect.
I once worked with someone who wasn’t fluent in English, but could read it really well. He had whisper running during meetings because he could read at the speed it translated, but couldn’t keep up with our casual speech.
Honestly, we didn’t even notice he was using speech to text to keep up with us for a few weeks. We only noticed because of screen sharing.
I imagine that would be a big social boon for deaf people as well.
All that to say, it’s not like there was _no_ good done with all that money.
This isn't true. On benchmarks whisper is not SOTA. It is said to be noise resistant but it doesn't compare well with Conformer based architectures ever on Librispeech mixed. Definitely not perfect, and it doesn't work for medical transcription.
Although all of this is from a production lens. For personal use, honestly nothing is as easy to use as Whisper (even works on a laptop).
Any day now you'll barely notice he isn't even there anymore; which seems to be the end goal.
It's not like this mad rush into la-la-land doesn't have negative consequences for society.