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From: Geethavani.Shamanna
Date: Apr 20, 2023 3:15AM


Hi Sean,

AI can also be put to good use:
https://medium.com/the-generator/midjourneys-crazy-new-describe-feature-a96cc09203cc

Geetha
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Steve,

Yes fully agree. It is scary technology when this technology impacts people professional careers. For example: Google and Apple creating AI audio narrators to the level you do not know it is AI. There is a lot of people who do this for a profession which will no longer have a job. Yes, it will make more books in audio books format. This is not resolving the literacy issue, just making it worse from my point of view. Those people who have a print disability is excluded from that statement.
This type of AI creative technology impacts Artists, authors and the like. AI music is a thing now, how is that going to impact the music industry? A guy in the UK one a photography award and when he excepted the award, he declined the money because he used AI to prove a point.

In Australia a person nearly got hit by a scammer for a million dollars. The person was convinced the person they were talking to was their daughter. The voice of the scammer was fully AI created. Luckily the person rang their partner and discovered the daughter was at home. Like any technology, the good and the ugly is based upon how people apply the technology. AI Ethics is a thing and was gaining ground until this year where Apple and Google laid off a bunch of those folks. Not sure who else has done that.


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It's not very good yet, but I can imagine it improving rapidly. I am less hopeful for other applications of AI within accessibility, largely because of the almost total absence of good training material for it. Also, I am sceptical whether the people with the skills to create an accurate, reliable AI tool would put their effort into accessibility rather than something more potentially lucrative.

AI has been massively over-hyped by a lot of deeply ignorant people. Task-specific AI applications are still not very accurate unless you spend insane amounts of money, and general AI machines are still decades away.

Steve


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Steve, thank you for this information. I am really excited about what you have just shared. As we have Power Bi and this will help our PWD employee's.


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Sean Murphy

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Microsoft Power BI can automatically generate a text alternative for graphs and charts. It can connect to all sorts of data sources, including spreadsheets. You can add charts just like you do in Excel, then right-click any chart, select Summarize, and it will use AI to generate a text description of the most important aspects of the data.

It's very early days, so it's not very good, but it's a start and shows what might be possible in future. We don't know all the factors it can report, but we have seen it report minima, maxima, trends, correlations and percentage changes. It reports different factors for different charts, depending on the data.

Steve Green
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Test Partners Ltd


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All,

I am doing a research on AI for accessibility and Disability. I am seeking for any tools which perform AI accessibility testing? Not the overlay products which we all know about. Has anyone done research into Chat.gpt or similar products based upon the Internet and identify the quality of their results when people ask these AI engine how to create accessible digital content?

Any tools which people can put on their web site like Object (image) Recognition technology would be of interest. Any research into dynamic UI based upon AI. I did read an article over 3 years ago which people were doing research in this space. If this technology has improved, then it could be an option to provide a UI suiting a person's needs.

Any technology that is truly based upon AI which supports the PWD. Like wheel chairs based upon self-driving car technology. See AI from Microsoft, etc is of interest.

Regards
Sean Murphy

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