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📱 AI apps like Be My Eyes or Seeing AI are game-changers! Tasks like reading labels, navigating spaces, or describing objects no longer always need sighted help. AI offers reliability, privacy, and convenience—something human helpers can't always guarantee. 🛠️
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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and, just for the sake of historical accuracy, OCR's been used by blind people for decades. While you are correct in that AI is a game changer, the access to printed text OCR has given us has been there for a long time, right back to the 1970's.
gotten much smaller, of course. I replaced my flatbed scanner with an iPhone by 2010. I'd imagine there's a very real possibility there'll be OCR from my next pair of smart glasses. But let's not conflate AI with OCR in every conceivable circumstance.
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The Blind AI
The Blind AI
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@cachondo Do you remember the first time Seeing AI ever described a person to you? I do it was in 2016 it was shit!
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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sure. I also remember the first time it could identify a face by name. pointing my phone camera at the door of my office meant I knew who walked in without them speaking (or even me hearing them), thanks to a Braille display. it was all done without today's interpretation of AI.

I'm not trying to rain on the usefulness of it, just keep perspective.

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