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by 16bytes 420 days ago
There are tons of AI/ML use-cases where 7% is acceptable.

Historically speaking, if you had a 15% word error rate in speech recognition, it would generally be considered useful. 7% would be performing well, and <5% would be near the top of the market.

Typically, your error rate just needs to be below the usefulness threshold and in many cases the cost of errors is pretty small.