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Alexander The 1st

@AuthorJMac As much as I'm not a fan of LLMs, the neural net stuff, while not necessarily being great either given its training requirements...did make me think of one really potentially useful use case - sorting recycling.

Instead of 3-5 different recycling boxes based on what is being recycled, put it all into one, and let a neutral net trained bot pick out each piece one-by-one, look at what it says in the number in the recycling logo, and sort it from there - at the recycling plant.

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Alexander The 1st

@AuthorJMac Bonus; have it train on organics too, and let it sort out the composting from the plastics/cardboard too.

Alexander The 1st

@AuthorJMac Like, recycling should be an important thing for us to do (Provided recycled stuff gets reused), but I remember when I went to the movie theatre last that they had this thing where the employees would hold containers for us to put our recycling in, and then they would sort it there in real-time if we got it into the wrong one.

...But nobody likes having to do the sorting by hand. Or at least, I've never seen anyone being engrossed with the sorting step.

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