It's kind of wild how much we are abandoning basic problem solving skills in favor of just pointing an enormous stack of GPUs at it

Identifying objects in pictures was considered an insurmountable task only a few years ago, like in the xckd comic https://xkcd.com/1425/

In the general case, I guess. But watching gauges and dials like battery capacity only take a little work with a deterministic computer vision library.

Yeah - the correct way to use an LLM in this scenario is to ask it to put write such a model.

Or just using voltage pickups like every system that monitors battery voltage ever, or about a dozen other very simple solutions.

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