[simianparrot]

They do so by running the image through an OCR tool call

[dpoloncsak]

They can, sure...that's really just LLMs though.

ML models to recognize handwriting have existed way before LLMs could call tools, though

Identifying digits is like the "Hello World!" of ML

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk

[simianparrot]

An OCR tool is ML. AI is generally used to mean LLM’s. You’re repeating what I already wrote

[stavros]

No they don't, they natively "see" images.