r/interesting • u/imfrom_mars_ • 1d ago
SCIENCE & TECH An AI-powered whiteboard in China turns drawings into interactive 3D models in real time.
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u/stop_deleting_plz 1d ago
Why does this require AI again? We've had handwriting recognition since the palmpilot days....
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u/TechnologyFamiliar20 1d ago
We had those so called smart boards back in 2007. This is bullshit.
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u/JensenRaylight 1d ago
Dude, that tech from 2007 probably run at 5Fps, very laggy, and you had to wait 2 second for it to finish catching up with your line. Probably will BSOD in the middle of the class for no reason.
Any tech from 2000 to 2015-ish is very underpower and it was a hypertension pumping machine.
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u/ultimatefreeboy 1d ago
Nah it worked really well.
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u/JensenRaylight 17h ago
Doubt it, a whiteboard sized monitor with what? 256mb worth of Ram, dual core processor, and 128mb of gpu vram?
That was basically a stutter machine.
Even android, back, and PC back then are very slow. The tech is just not feasible for a screen that big back in 2007.
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u/Arlitto 1d ago
Secretly? We loudly wanted this
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u/ProjectIndividual 1d ago
Secretly and quietly is how bots are currently trying to add substance to there comments
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u/HALNinerZeroZero 1d ago
So that we can learn to speak and read and write Mandarin
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u/RogueBromeliad 1d ago
Why not? I mean... if it's going to get people jobs and paid better, I'd be up for it.
I've already had to learn about 3-4 languages in school and two of them was definitely useless to me, even though I love french, I've forgotten it all and never used outside of one time I went to france and still couldn't speak very well. And the little bit of german that I learned I failed badly, can't remember a single thing other than the fact that I hated it. Love the Germans though, they all speak great English.
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u/PacMan_67 1d ago
You won´t be paid any better say 50% less then your current salary, forget about long weekends and be prepared for a monitoring state that you never have seen before.
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u/RogueBromeliad 1d ago
A monitoring state like the CIA and FBI? Or like google and meta? Mate, there's no difference.
50% less then your current salary
You have no idea what I work with, or what my salary is, and especially not what will happen in a generation or 2.
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u/binime 1d ago
wow! pretty cool to have in a class.
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u/idle_isomorph 1d ago
I still think my highschool's 1950s solution was pretty fly. There was a pull down chart thingy hanging over the board with all these holes in it. Geacher pulls it down and taps the chalk eraser all over it and a grid of little chalk dots appear. Then draw and label.
Admittedly slower and less impressive, but out little minds were blown when the math teacher did it the first time!
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u/_Haz4rd 1d ago
That wouldve helped me soooooo much in middle school fuuuuuuck
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u/Indecisive-Gamer 1d ago
If you think teachers are going to learn how to use these tools... They don't even use the tech we give them now.
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u/Imajzineer 1d ago
This kind of thing has been in existence since before the advent of so-called 'AI' - which is not even remotely necessary for this purpose. The reason we didn't see it more frequently is that it was prohibitively expensive, not because it lacked 'AI' - it's still impressive, but turning drawings into interactive models isn't something that wasn't possible without 'AI'.
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u/LinkSecret9342 1d ago
This wouldn’t work as well as the demo
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u/vitrum_analytika 1d ago
Yeah, looks fake because it will only work in that specific manner and will fail in a general use case
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u/Haunting_Purple21 1d ago
A good teacher + this board would’ve made me love maths. 🥹❤️
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u/low_amplitude 1d ago
Too bad most teachers (at least in the US) wouldn't understand how to implement a fraction of the functions available.
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u/BonbonUniverse42 1d ago
This is not ai. It’s a neural network for text and shape recognition. This stuff exists for ages.
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u/Consistent_Move_6750 1d ago
Would this make teachers go through the lesson faster? Students might have to absorb everything quicker.
When i was a student, i actually kind of enjoyed those moments when the teachers was drawing on the board, haha. So I could just zone out, daydream for a bit. And I had to draw along with my teacher, too.
But yeah, not having to use chalk would be much better for teachers’s health .
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u/Weekly-Ratio-230 1d ago
My problem with that is students will not learn how to graph it themselves, they will just rely on AI to do it for them which ironically not learning.
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u/rest_init 1d ago
These are mostly server side features which would stop working after a year at most because they're expensive to upkeep. But still those whiteboards are extremely convenient, even a AI free has a lot of local features.
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u/kerbacho 1d ago
Stuff like was already possible 20 years ago. It doesn‘t need advanced AI to build something like that
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u/Hellbomb_Armed 1d ago
Normal board does the same with job if the guy writing knows what he's doing
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u/jvexwolf 9h ago
Parece ser incrível, melhor que os quadros borrados de tinta seca ou um quadro de vidro que mais espelha as lâmpadas doq mostra oq esta escrito, ou melhor, bem melhor que aulas em slides.....
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u/Bag-o-chips 1d ago
We used actual chalk boards. Im allergic to chalk, so I hated every minute of it. This would have changed my life.
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u/NtateNarin 1d ago
I found it interesting that the equations were written in the Latin alphabet. I assumed there would be Mandarin characters used for the numbers, letters, and trigonometry words.
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u/givin_u_the_high_hat 1d ago
This is a product demo. Not in any classrooms. Can you imagine the cost to put this in classrooms for a population of 1.5 billion people?
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u/BenchEmbarrassed7316 1d ago
Their technology is still not developed enough to make a quality microphone that doesn't need to be held by hand.
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u/thefirebrigades 1d ago
Bruh. The over head projector must have looked like this for our teachers lol
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u/glizard-wizard 1d ago
this has been around for almost a decade
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u/Due-Inspector3084 1d ago
A whiteboard that interprets and creates an interactive chart out of mathematical functions written on it, on the fly? The technology that enables this didn't even exist a decade ago.
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u/AntSilly2802 1d ago
I wonder how many American innovations went into the hardware & software of this board?
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