Comment by anonylizard | Hacker News Reader

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Get off your high horse.

AI is plainly revolutionary for the blind. You don't need 'high level prosthetics', you just need a smartphone with a camera, and you can now see the world.

AI is also revolutionary for the deaf, neural speech to text is getting so good, that soon 'hearing aids' will be secondary, you can just read from a screen with live subtitles.

You are pretty much making stuff up with " Will it become the accessible norm?Nope." ChatGPT plus only costs $20 a month. How more 'accessible' can it possibly get? Has there ever ever ever been a technology for the deaf and blind as revolutionary AND cheap as this?

If you have some anti-corporate agenda, fine, but self-righteousness gives you no right to lie.

And all it's going to cost the rest of us is our ability to free and critically think.

No biggie.

Accessibility is accountability. How accountable is 'OpenAI' to anyone other than it's massive investor Microsoft? You want me to be self-righteous so you can be dismissive of the actual path we are travelling on, likely because you benefit from it; and most likely not because you're blind.

"Anti-corporate agenda" is a pro-human perspective. Difficult to call people liars without being utterly delusional, when there is a clear track record of corporate abuse of purpose.

"Don't be evil!" That turned out well, huh?

Life loves irony; and the truth is, we will grant the blind vision only for them to see it all collapse. Congrats on being a real champion of the disabled.

> hearing aids' will be secondary, you can just read from a screen with live subtitles

I already do this on Discord, my bot listens to discord calls, saves the audio in chunks, send them off to whisper and I get a neat tidy live-ish transcription. It's a game-changer honestly because combination APD and ADHD being able to go back in the conversion and see what I missed or came out garbled is amazing. Whisper is so good compared to the previous state-of-art it's nuts. It understands tone, slang. My next project is to see if I can get it to detect different speakers.

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