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avturchin2y282

Collapse of mega-project to create AI based on linguistics

ABBYY spent 100 million USD for 30 years to create a model of language using hundreds of linguists. It fails to compete with transformers. This month the project was closed. More in Russian here: https://sysblok.ru/blog/gorkij-urok-abbyy-kak-lingvisty-proigrali-poslednjuju-bitvu-za-nlp/

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avturchin2y40

ABBYY created Finereader which was one of the best OCR systems.

7gwern2y

I had no idea ABBYY was so big. I thought it was just some minor OCR or PDF software developer. Interesting to hear about their historical arc. (I am also amused to see my Sutton meme used.)

7cubefox2y

Thanks, this was an interesting article. The irony of course being that I, not knowing Russian, read it using Google Translate.

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