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Turning Points

A month-by-month chronology of capabilities AI can now do — capabilities that flipped from CAN NOT to CAN.

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Dec 2015 red dots = months with flips Feb 2026

TURNING POINT · SEP 2023

👃 Sensory

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Can AI read handwriting in 50+ scripts ?

Latin, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Arabic, Han characters, Hangul — modern OCR handles essentially every script with mostly-passable accuracy. --- Current AI system...

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TURNING POINT · SEP 2023

⚖️ Judgment

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Can AI read a financial earnings report and summarize key risks ?

10-Ks, earnings calls, MD&A sections. Buy-side analysts now spend more time prompting and verifying than reading. --- Current AI systems can process and analy...

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TURNING POINT · SEP 2023

👃 Sensory

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Can AI identify a specific painting from a 100-pixel thumbnail ?

Art history apps use this for visitor experiences in major museums. --- Current deep learning models have made significant progress in image recognition tasks...

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Turning Points

Can AI read handwriting in 50+ scripts ?

Can AI read a financial earnings report and summarize key risks ?

Can AI identify a specific painting from a 100-pixel thumbnail ?

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Turning Points

Can AI read handwriting in 50+ scripts ?

Can AI read a financial earnings report and summarize key risks ?

Can AI identify a specific painting from a 100-pixel thumbnail ?

Got one we missed?

Links & Legal

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