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What is your "I could have been rich" story? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] intelisense@lemm.ee 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had the idea to offload machine learning to GPUs back in the early 00's. I was working for a company doing number plate recognition back then, so I was even in a position to act on my idea... but my boss thought I was nuts.

I'm not sure how much money I would have made, but it's got to be better than this!

[–] intelisense@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

OK, it was a basic pattern recognition model, nothing nearly as sophisticated as we have now, but I think it would have performed significantly faster.