THE MORE INTUITIVE A TASK IS FOR humans, generally, the harder it is for artificial intelligence. Think of when Alexa can't hear your commands, or when your spam filter traps an important email. A computer's ability to read handwriting, then translate it into letters and numbers it can understand, has been a challenge going back decades. Think of the hit-or-miss capabilities of the Windows Transcriber in the early 2000s, or the PalmPilot in the late '90s. Handwriting is so nuanced that just analyzing a static letter's shape doesn't work.
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