New blog post: Enhancing Accessibility with AI and ML
We discuss how to specialize #AI for understanding UI for #a11y testing, the importance of algorithm and data integrity, and how #ML can be used to simplify #a11y testing. deque.com/blog/enhancing-acces…
#Freddie could not sing this with us, but now we have the chance to hear what it could have sounded like. Hats off to Brian May for one of his best songs.
Not quite the right style and accent, but it still gives me the chills. There's never going to be another voice like this. #ai #cover #queen #music
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will explain.
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It mainly shows how distinctive Weird Al’s voice is, though MechaLorde singing ‘Foil’ is pretty good
AI has the potential to disrupt the whole comedy genre of pop-cultural pastiche and parody. Why would you watch comedians doing impressions of celebrities, or riffing on pop-culture texts, when you could just manipulate the celebrity yourself using AI?
Still, what constantly annoys me about the state of AI-driven parody (eg the meme of pop-culture characters as #Balenciaga models) is that the writing underpinning them is so poor
So even if we get to a point where we can completely puppeteer real people’s likenesses and voices, it still fails if there isn’t decent writing
Weird Al’s writing has always been excellent and hilarious. I mean, lines like in ‘Fat’, his parody of ‘Bad’: “When I sit around the house, I really sit around the house”
So far, that kind of stuff can’t be automatically generated – AI-created comedy is of the surreal and absurdist kind that reads as an unintentional, “machine-innocent” artefact of the generation process
What would it sound like if the musicians parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic sang *his* parodies instead? I jumped off the deep end into the world of A.I. cover songs to find out, and the results are even worse than you imagine.
New article posted by Hasan Çimen: For us visually impaired individuals, accessing image descriptions has long been a challenge. While object recognition apps provided some assistance, they were limited in their ability to describe images comprehensively. However, recent developments in AI have brought about a groundbreaking solution, making detailed image descriptions accessible to the community. Let’s look at the brief history accessibleandroid.com/detailed… #Android #AI #GPT4 #Bing
For us visually impaired individuals, accessing image descriptions has long been a challenge. This post explains how to get Detailed Image Descriptions with Bing
An update on #BlueSky and #AI. They have answered to questions and revealed that their deal with hive.ai specifically forbids the latter from training their models on user data. BlueSky have also updated their TOS to be more clear.
See the linked toot from @growlbeast for more details.
I’d still avoid it personally, their “moderation” is nonexistent and I wouldn’t touch anything backed by cryptobros, but for now this is good news :)
Bsky does have say in how Hive uses the data Hive gets from Bsky as it's part of the agreement they have with Hive and It would have to be disclosed in our user end ToS.(The ToS states our data is NOT used beyond moderation models, meaning it does not go to the image gen model.)
BSky has been updating their ToS to be more clear about it apparently too.
here's an email sent from the team to my friend regarding some of this:
To anyone thinking about joining BlueSky, especially artists: everything you post is used to train generative AI models.
BlueSky uses AI to label content for moderation, and to do that they use a company called thehive.ai. If you look through their privacy policy, you will see that they use all content sent to them to train models for all their services, which include generative AI for both text and images.
Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.
An update on #BlueSky and #AI. They have answered to questions and revealed that their deal with hive.ai specifically forbids the latter from training their models on user data. BlueSky have also updated their TOS to be more clear.
See the linked toot from @growlbeast for more details.
I’d still avoid it personally, their “moderation” is nonexistent and I wouldn’t touch anything backed by cryptobros, but for now this is good news :)
“And yet falsely claiming to be a human through online interaction could/should be seen as a manifestation of false and misleading advertising under the Competition Act. Chatbots should be clearly labelled, too. They should not be able to masquerade as humans.
Synthetic media is super similar. If we are to consider consuming stuff conjured by artificial intelligence, we should be able to know what made it.” A+ piece from Vass Bendar: regs2riches.com/p/what-tech-po… #AI #techpolicy #GCdigital
We are seeking proposals for our #DeepDiveAI webinar series. OSI board members and volunteers will review the proposals and those accepted will be asked to present their talk online in a webinar during the months of September through November
Submit your proposal today! Deadline for submissions is July 24th. buff.ly/42uGUVS
Defining Open Source AI The time has come to have a clear definition We’re driving a multi-stakeholder process to define an “Open Source AI” Send your proposal An open process Thi…
Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.
Over the past year, I've been experimenting with neural text to speech in various forms. I have done hours of experimentation and research, training models and getting varying results along the way. Some of you may have heard of Piper, an open source synthesizer and add on for NVDA that can be trained by anyone. It is currently in active development, and I have been there from the beginning, testing and evaluating the various versions. For years, I have had a goal to create a high-quality voice that is truly usable by a screen reader user, and yesterday I managed to achieve this. I'm really excited to share Alba, a female Scottish English voice. I'm considering this a beta phase, and I'm looking for feedback to make improvements as needed. Please note that you will most likely get an error upon installation, however the voice should still show up to NVDA, and I'm working on fixing this as soon as possible. Link to Piper: github.com/rhasspy/piper/tree/… Link to addon: github.com/mush42/piper-nvda?r… Link to Alba: drive.google.com/file/d/1wZHuI… #TTS #AI #ScreenReader #Piper
This add-on implements a speech synthesizer driver for NVDA using [Piper](https://github.com/rhasspy/piper). - GitHub - mush42/piper-nvda at building.open-home.io
“AI threatens to deepen the dominance of a way of thinking that is white, male, comparatively affluent and focused on the US and Europe.” "An industry brimming with people who espouse liberal, self-consciously progressive opinions so often seems to push the world in the opposite direction."
John Harris interview with @timnitGebru, the Ethiopian-born computer scientist who sacked by Google after pointing out the inequalities built into #AI. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI. But after decades working with technology companies, she knows all too much about discrimination
"Don’t Tell #ChatGPT Anything You Wouldn’t Want to See on a #Billboard"
"Here’s a simple tip: DO NOT use #AI on any work-related project without checking your company’s policy. Even if your company has no policy, think twice, or even three times, before you put anything work-related into an AI. You don’t want to become infamous for triggering the privacy fiasco that spurs your company into creating such a policy."
Chatting with an AI program feels personal and conversational, but don’t be fooled. Here's why you should keep a lid on what you reveal to ChatGPT and its ilk.
> EC proposes new rules and actions for excellence and trust in #AI
> The Commission proposes today new rules and actions aiming to turn Europe into the global hub for trustworthy AI. The combination of the first-ever legal framework on AI and a new Coordinated Plan with Member States will guarantee the safety and fundamental rights of people and businesses, while strengthening AI uptake, investment and innovation across the EU.
This is the story about a hacker that went too far.Socials:Join our discord: https://discord.gg/GcHHffXFollow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/DisruptTweet...
Microsoft's AI is boosting fake stories about sex changes for toddlers on the MSN service, blindly furthering the extreme right's project to eliminate trans people.
The issue with MSN's algorithmic aggregation after they fired their human team was first brought to their attention last December, when the service boosted fake stories about Bigfoot and Mermaids. #trans #journalism #AI
There are no medical interventions for transgender young before puberty. A false Daily Caller story claiming otherwise was disseminated by Microsoft’s AI-powered MSN service.
Are AI tools really as smart as creative writers? 🧐 It looks like we will soon know for sure. In any case, AI and its influence on our societies must be watched closely: After all the tools were trained with human writers content who they are now supposed to replace. vice.com/en/article/pkap3m/gpt…
The desire to replace writers with AI is a symptom of the larger problem that the guild is fighting for—which is that companies do not value writers and their work.
This one has different methodologies and philosophies that try to mitigate some of the ethical issues with other similar #GenerativeAI programming systems.
Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research release StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating #AI like GitHub's #Copilot, as part of the #BigCode project.
Music and #ai? Well, let's see... Grimes and communismThat's a Westener's dream and ilusion! :) ? Grimes to present speech on AI at April’s International Music Summit musictech.com/news/industry/in…
"As AI becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, it is crucial to address issues of inclusivity, bias, and fairness in #AI development and deployment."
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into our lives, it's vital that AI systems serve all members of society. AI should be inclusive, fair, and without bias.
Wait, if this scales up would this let us run these things on, say, our phones? If it replaces the transformer, could it replace other uses of the transformer, like Whisper? If it can do that and deliver equivalent or better results for those kinds of speed-ups, ML applications on edge computing will explode, again. And given the accessibility benefits of some existing tech, imagine being able to run that on something other than the cloud! This new technology could blow away GPT-4 and everything like it zdnet.com/article/this-new-tec… #AI #MachineLearning
"Midjourney now offers a clever twist on its #AI image software, using its powerful machine-learning algorithms to generate text descriptions of already-existing images. This makes detailed image captions trivially easy to make and could totally change the game for blind people when it comes to pictures. "
Instead of turning a text prompt into an image, AI image-creation company Midjourney can now turn an image into text, which experts say could be an accessibility win.
