Tom Gauld on the AI (investment) bubble

#AI #investment

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Once upon a time, there was a cool emulator frontend called Retroarch. This emulator wasn't accessible until I and a few other gamers went to them and asked about adding accessibility. An amazing person known as BarryR made it happen. Now, if you turn on accessibility mode in settings, or pass the "--accessibility" (or something like that) flag on the command line, you get spoken menus, including the emulator's pause menu, good for saving states and such. Then, using PIL and other image processing Python utilities, running a server and hooking into Retroarch, the script allowed players to move around the map, battle, talk to NPC's, ETC. The only problem was, no one wanted to test it. The blind gaming community pretty much spoke, saying that we want new games. We want cool new, easy accessibility. So that's what we have no, follow the beacon or get sighted help in the case of diablo and such. It's sad, but meh. It's what we wanted I guess. No Zelda for us. So, this is about as far as he got:

To expand on what devinprater was saying: I am working on an accessibility pack/service for Final Fantasy 1 for the NES (this was what was shown in the latest RetroArch update). The idea is similar to how Pokemon Crystal access works, but it's using the RetroArch AI Service interface to do so.
Right now, the FF1 access service is mostly done, but I need more testers to try it out and give me feedback on how it's working. Right now, you can get up to the point where you get the ship, but there's no code to deal with how the ship moves, so that still needs to be done. Likewise with the airship later on.
The service works the latest version of RetroArch, on linux and mac, but not windows. This is due to how nvda reads out the text and until the next major update to nvda (which will have a feature to fix this), it'll have to wait. If you have those, I (or maybe devinprater) can help you set it up on mac/linux to test out. The package itself is available at: (new link cause old one broke yesterday): dropbox.com/scl/fi/ggffl769fx6…
#accessibility #finalFantasy #RetroArch #blind #emulator #emulation #Python #ai #ML #MachineLearning

This is proper use of machine learning as opposed to the idiocy we see in the west.

These systems are great at correlating a lot of data and noticing patterns, and then alerting humans to do stuff like proactive maintenance.

#machinelearning #ai

scmp.com/news/china/science/ar…

GOSIM 2024 Europe Will Be Held in the Netherlands on May 6th: Embrace the Global Open Source Wave and Build a New Era of AI Here comes the GOSIM 2024 Europe!
medium.com/@gosimfoundation/th…

For more information please visit: europe2024.gosim.org

Scan or register here:
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#rust #rustlang #rustnl #opensource #gui #mobile #app #ai #fediverse #matrix #gosim

Even if you don't code, this is essay presents a solid case on why #AI can't be relied on to replace work requiring any degree of empathy and nuanced understanding

Specifically, if you're building accessible web-based experiences, @hdv explains why "outsourcing" this work create more harm than good and offers some better alternatives to focus on instead (hint: invest in a #DesignSystem)

#accessibility #a11y #InclusiveDesign

hidde.blog/ai-for-accessible-c…

“AI” and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable?

Are LLMs helpful tools to assist with making accessible front-end components? Let's find out.

^{Hidde's blog}

On Tech Talk this week, I had a great conversation with Troy Otilio from @AiraVI about their new Access AI feature, which has recently been released as a beta in the Aira Explorer app. We spoke about where this feature came from, the impact the use of AI has on privacy, and so much more about AI and Aira in general. Have a listen here or wherever you get your podcasts

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/…

@rnib #aira #AccessAI #AI #chatGPT #gemini #blind #accessibility #podcast

‎RNIB Tech Talk: Tech Talk 508: Access AI, WelcoMe In Currys, RNIB Gamer Survey on Apple Podcasts

‎Show RNIB Tech Talk, Ep Tech Talk 508: Access AI, WelcoMe In Currys, RNIB Gamer Survey - 16 Apr 2024

^{Apple Podcasts}

If you have a website with neo cities, just know that the creator actually likes AI, and will add it again based on this post alone. Moratorium on freaking out about AI kyledrake.com/writings/ai

One alternative I've found is nekoweb.org/

Background on NeoCities adding AI to their editor.

cohost.org/horseonvhs/post/566…

#AI #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #neocities

horse on cohost

fucking, come on man. (edit from the future: a few hours after i posted this, the feature was reportedly turned off - see here [https://cohost.org/nicky/post/5665868-damn-i-should-be-sen] for more info)

^{horse on cohost}

YOWZA
Form Extractor Prototype

“This tool extracts the structure from an image of a form.”

github.com/timpaul/form-extrac…

#ai #LLM #UX #accessibility

GitHub - timpaul/form-extractor-prototype

Contribute to timpaul/form-extractor-prototype development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

GPL2 vs GPL3 as a Rap battle (#ai-generated)

suno.com/song/16da57d3-b68f-41…

GPL2 vs GPL3 rap battle | Suno

Rap battle song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

^suno.com

Director @tink is quoted in the Financial Times this week discussing the increasing presence of AI in the world of digital accessibility.

ft.com/content/3c877c55-b698-4…

#FinancialTimes #AI #Accessibility

Lots of things happening in the AI/LLM space that could have implications for #accessibility

Ferret-UI from Apple:
arxiv.org/abs/2404.05719

ScreenAI from Google
research.google/blog/screenai-…

#a11y #ai #LLM

Ferret-UI: Grounded Mobile UI Understanding with Multimodal LLMs

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been noteworthy, yet, these general-domain MLLMs often fall short in their ability to comprehend and interact effectively with user interface (UI) screens.

^arXiv.org

"Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids", reports an article in the Financial Times:
ft.com/content/3c877c55-b698-4…

#FT has a paywall but three articles can be accessed for free if you register.

TLDR is that AI #accessibility widgets over promise and under deliver. Repeatedly.

#AI #GenerativeAI #a11y

New #blog post: MDN’s AI Help and lucid lies.

This article on AI focused on the inherent untrustworthiness of LLMs, and attempts to break down where LLM untrustworthiness comes from. Stay tuned for a follow-up article about AI that focuses on data-scraping and the theory of labor. It’ll examine what makes many forms of generative AI ethically problematic, and the constraints employed by more ethical forms.

Excerpt:

I don’t find the mere existence of LLM dishonesty to be worth blogging about; it’s already well-established. Let’s instead explore one of the inescapable roots of this dishonesty: LLMs exacerbate biases already present in their training data and fail to distinguish between unrelated concepts, creating lucid lies.

A lucid lie is a lie that, unlike a hallucination, can be traced directly to content in training data uncritically absorbed by a large language model. MDN’s AI Help is the perfect example.

Originally posted on seirdy.one: see original. #MDN #AI #LLM #LucidLies

MDN’s AI Help and lucid lies

MDN’s AI Help can’t critically examine training data’s gaps, biases, and unrelated topics. It’s a useful demonstration of LLMs’ uncorrectable lucid lies.

^{Seirdy’s Home}

Yup, about sums it up...

#AI #tech #business

Have you seen @nextcloud AI Assistant 2.0?

You can now chat about your own documents and data, use GPU acceleration, transcribe audio with Whisper, use your own LLMs, and a ton more integrations and new features.

All #open-source 😀

Boosts appreciated 🙏

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-r…

#AI #mastodon #Linux #Foss #OSS

"What made me put my coffee down this morning was 'synthetically generating music', which apparently now falls under 'needs to disclose'.

Them’s fighting words.

Let’s say I fiddle with some knobs on my Eurorack setup (that’s a music synthesizer if you don’t know), and decide to upload it in the background of a video. Am I now making 'altered content?'"

#MusicProduction #MusicTech #AI #Policy #YouTube #Deepfakes

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#GenAI hype in financial terms! #AI #nvidia #NVDA #generativeAI

youtube.com/watch?v=idxW9VGdXo…

The Stock Market is 'Priced to Insanity'.

Is the stock market currently 'priced to insanity'? In this video, we look at what the Dean of Valuation has to say. Aswath Damodaran recently gave an interv...

^YouTube

Responsible and Ethical AI with Dr. Rumman Chowdhury | Axe-con 2024 Keynote

youtube.com/watch?v=ccCZ4FxruM…

#ethic #a11y #ai #disability #axecon

Responsible and Ethical AI with Dr. Rumman Chowdhury | Axe-con 2024

^YouTube

Watching this with interest: first #AI (ChatGPT) based screen
reader:typeahead.ai/

This could change the screen reader paradigm and I'll try the #Windows version when it's available, but I worry that using it for work and remaining #GDPR compliant will not be possible.

This also heralds a much bigger paradigm change - the UI for everyone will change and the GUI as we know it may well disappear.

I always enjoy opportunities to learn from Audrey Tang - @au - her recent interview in the podcast #YourUndividedAttention is no exception. In "Future-proofing Democracy In the Age of AI with Audrey Tang" raises important questions about #AI & #Democracy. What do we need to do now to help prepare citizens for #DeepFakes. Important to hear about the role #Taiwan is playing in #ResponsibleAI.

2024 is an election year for almost half of the world's population.

your-undivided-attention.simpl…

Jakob Nielsen thinks accessibility has failed.

Jakob Nielsen thinks that generative AI will make my experience better.

I think Nielsen needs to think again.
tink.uk/nielsen-needs-to-think…

#accessibility #a11y #AI

They called him Al Balcon…

#ai #transcription

“I’m a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide [and] apartheid”

dailydot.com/debug/google-prot…

Watch the others in the room. The assholes who jeer and manhandle the protestors. These are your peers in the tech industry. These are the “acceptable folks” in tech. Fuck these people.

Look at their faces. They know exactly what they’re complict in. Look at their smug smiles. Dickheads each one.

#tech #google #ai #ProjectNimbus #israel #genocide #palestine

Google Protest At Tech Conference Over Israel Contracts

Google engineers protested Google at an Israel tech conference in New York before being thrown out by security.

^{Marlon Ettinger (The Daily Dot)}

"Nvidia shares surge past $700 driven by demand for AI."

LLMs are deep learning layered neural networks of matrices, during forward propagation, inputs are multiplied by weight matrices and the results are added together to produce an output which becomes the next layer's input hence CUDA and floating point arithmetic.

But what if you didn't need multiplication? Seems this news has not reached the market yet. arxiv.org/pdf/2310.11453.pdf

#NVDA #SELL #AI

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Do you have a blog at Wordpress.com? Congrats! You will soon be feeding all your content to an AI, unless you opt-out. Same with Tumblr! (Why I self-host, reason #4711) Source: 404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpre… and many more

UPDATE: Seems it already happened. Content from 2014-2023 has already been shared. So your opt-out will just be honoured going forward. If and how already sent content will be handled by the receiving 3rd party after you opt-out remains a mystery

#WordPress #Tumblr #AI #MidJourney

Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

As more and more social publishing platforms decide to sell user content to the hypercapitalist hyperfunded AI data ingestion machines, I'm seeing people in agonies over feeling the need to delete, for example, a beloved Tumblr blog with a decade's effort invested.

I feel their pain too keenly to say this at their faces, but all I can think of is my first rule. I coined it before this kind of AI was a thing, but that doesn't make me wrong:

erosblog.com/2013/06/11/bacchu…

#BacchusFirstRule #POSSE #AI

Bacchus's First Rule Of The Internet - ErosBlog: The Sex Blog

Bacchus's First Rule Of The Internet: Anything worth doing on the internet is worth doing on your own server that you control.

^{Bacchus (ErosBlog: The Sex Blog)}

Last week we fell for a stupid #Gmail hoax.

We'd like to apologize for sharing this image without fact checking first.

Particularly with the rise of #AI it's important that we all stay vigilant & not fall for #FakeNews.

#FreedomOfSpeech matters, but so does the #truth.

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