khafra comments on Feed the spinoff heuristic! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 01 March 2012 01:23:16PM 2 points [-]

Really? Flashy stuff like Word Lens is rare, but stuff like more prosaic OCR, increasingly automated consumer photography, and face-recognizing CCTV seems to be economically effective.

I certainly agree that there are unsolved difficulties in computer vision with probably profitable solutions which may be Hard Problems, though.