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> AI-based real-world applications

I don't know; I feel the real-world applications are still missing and what we are now seeing are tech demos (impressive ones!) and gimmicks. I'm still waiting to see all this ML stuff to be used in a productive context.

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I personally use ML stuff in a productive context almost every day. Topaz labs software for denoising and upscaling images, Star Xterminator and Starnet for astrophotography edits. Don’t know if this counts as productive but the tools I use to analyze my chess games are also all utilizing neural nets. So if you’re not seeing useful ML applications in your day to day life it could just be that the things they’re good at don’t align well with your job or hobbies just yet.

Pixelmator Pro has a ML powered image resizer built in. I like that.

Also Retrobatch has a ML based image classifier, but I didn't try that yet.

Other than these, yet all these are impressive tech demos. We need them in production and preferably open source (model + training + process) versions.

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