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by survirtual 1218 days ago
Neural nets operating on mel sprectograms (spectrograms shifted to bias frequencies that are of interest to humans) have remarkable ability for audio classification and synthesis. It stands to reason it would not be difficult to adapt methods towards nearly anything which can be mapped to an image in a similar way. I don’t think its particularly novel in concept and kind of surprised it isn’t significantly further along.

I think we are at the technology level to really make medicine significantly more affordable and available, at the cost of many high paying doctor’s jobs. Same can be said for lawyers. These are powerful groups that will not take being automated lightly.