Fractal's "Entrepreneurship" Blog

1) I am Fractal, a Maker and lover of all things innovative. I believe in the power of machine learning and how much it can speed up the workflow and make our lives easier by taking out the grunt work in important but exceedingly repetitive jobs like mine. I work in data entry. I read prescriptions as they come and I type them up. I belive a robot can and should take my job. My job would then become double-checking if the robot analyzed the image correctly, thereby making my life a whole lot easier, and making the data entry process a whole lot quicker. 2) I'm offering an artificial intelligence machine learning program that is capable of detecting and handling handwritten text, especially for that of data entry. 3) My ideal customer would be corporate data entry offices, giving them the opportunity to implement an AI that automatically processes and data-enters prescriptions. With literally millions of databased prescriptions on file, there's practically an endless stream o

Since it is easier to seek out people who need the service as a notetaking transcription rather than actually interviewing supervisers at work, I used this segment for my interviews. I find that students desperately seem to want a service to be able to take their notes and digitize them, so that their scrawl is easily readable later on and so that they can share notes with friends. They seem to look for services that'll either detect their handwriting (which are rudimentary at best and barely able to read print) or for services for other students or such to type up their notes for them so that they save time. This becomes especially apparent around exam time when students are desperately trying to organize their notes but simply don't have the time. An image detection tech trained on the universally most messiest handwritings would be able to detect and transcribe student notes with just a push of a button. It could be put on phones or on library computers with scanners.

1) Who I am: I'm a nerd who loves 3d printing and robots and AI and all things cutting edge tech, yet my job right now is typing prescriptions all day while I daydream about robots and machine learning. I feel like a robot should take my job and I feel like it can do so feasibly and open up gateways to other options such as handwriting detection in general. I'd more be interested in the AI than entrepreneurship though. 2) What does it do: It transcribes prescriptions automatically and a company using it only needs to use human error checking rather than an entire central utility technician fleet. 3) The consumers: at first just the pharmacists and the pharmacy industry, but once the algorithm gets good at reading doctor chickenscratch, it can be used to transcribe generic handwritten notes like for students. 4) Why they should care: don't have to pay for the central utility humans' wages, and also the notetakers would save time in transcription. 5) What's

What even is this assignment Interview 1 CS student They do not believe this technology has its use in too many industries. It's far too specific on handwriting detection which is only useful for any industry that directly involves handwritten notes or overall image detection. For instance, a home system that learns your work/sleep schedule and has everything prepared for you ahead of time has no need for handwriting detection. They do not know much about pharmacies, but this technology only really benefits anyone handling the prescriptions, since most of the rest of the industry doesn't really use handwritten notes at all. They simply don't have any real use for this technology. Interview 2 Coworker I feel like I fall outside "the boundary" you talk about. I personally don't want my job taken. I like my job. It is easy and I make money. The tiny amount of time saved in prescription handling doesn't really justify me not having my job. I don'

Haha look at me I'm pretending I'm a CapITaLISt HO HO LOL GIvE mE MonEy I hATe EmPLoYeEs Words? So there I am at work, tap tap tap, typing away at a computer. Sounds like a normal desk job right? It's a bit too normal. All I do is type up prescriptions digitally. Ten hours a day, four days a week. It's bad enough for me with ADHD, but with 500 employees on the floor doing this day in and day out, it can be pretty mind numbing for anyone. And I'm thinking to myself as I am working, that I felt like a robot, and not in a good way. Then it hit me. There's literally millions upon millions of these prescriptions entered and stored. And we have machine learning algorithms to take thousands of images and learn what's in them and export them to text or even a new image. What I'm saying is why don't we literally let a robot take my job? Walgreens would be saving by not having to employ 500 monkeys at typewriters. What could go wrong with the employees an

My job is weird. I don't mean this negatively. I mean this in the sense why are humans still doing this? Data entry of prescriptions? It seems like this is something a robot should be doing. And I don't mean this in a "robots should take our jobs" sense (even though they should). I mean this in the sense of why are we relying on humans to mash out what's written on prescriptions when the technology exists to better extract data from handwritten text and even better so from printed text. My point is we already have millions of training examples correctly documented. If we used these as training data for a machine learning algorithm, it would be able to create immediate more accurate prescriptions for pharmacists. Not only that, but imagine how good AI could become at reading handwriting if it can decipher doctor cursive! This potentially has many uses outside of the pharmacy just in terms of technological advancement alone. Now this is just one possible solution