AI could be a game changer for people with disabilities

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• snooggums@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think almost everyone is on board with ai as a tool used by people.

  The pushback is against ai being used in a way that is mostly or fully automated withoit human confirmation. Or when ai is used to justify terrible practices by shifting the blame from the people doing those things, like blaming ai for denying medical care when humans were doing that already.

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  • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Though it would be poetic justice if some future AGI decides that billionaires are the problem and must be culled for the sake of humanity.

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• eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, it will be used to “scientifically” entrench discrimination and denial of medical care.

  Absolutely nobody is going to benefit from AI except ghouls like Nadella and Altman.

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  • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You should listen to blind smartphone user Steve Nutt discuss his experiences using AI tools on the Phone Show Chat podcast or read about the experiences of Ann, a woman who was paralyzed after a stroke, who was able to communicate again using her voice thanks to AI. In other words, let the disabled speak for themselves instead of assuming they are some homogenous group of people who all share the exact same opinion as you and have nominated you as their sole representative.

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  • helopigs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m already benefiting from it on a daily basis, and I’m neither of those people.

    Capitalists will always capitalize, but that doesn’t necessarily negate usefulness. On the contrary, by some estimates llama3 cost nearly $1B to develop, yet it’s free on huggingface for anyone to download and use.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t expect anyone to come running to make things better for disabled people unless they think they can make a profit off of it.

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  • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What about open source projects?

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re great, but if the last 20-30 years of Open Source are any indication, most average people do not use Open Source, and beyond that, most don’t even know what it is.

      The use of Open Source projects is mainly in corporations, while individuals using Open Source projects make up a small minority of the use cases.

      I would love to see growth in that arena, but if the past is any indication, it will struggle to grow.

      Further, as these may be considered “medically assistive devices” you run into the issue of possibly needing FDA approval to even distribute it.

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My sister is blind and she is very excited about the prospect of good screen readers that don’t read out the pointless shit while at the same time being completely unable to describe images.

  AI has the potential to be hugely useful for people with disabilities. It just needs to be done in a way that’s private, hopefully ran locally.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This would be a good point if anything in the article was actually “AI”. Does anyone even want an “intelligent” prosthetic?

  Just because a machine can fetch your butter, that doesn’t actually make it intelligent.

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