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My two cents, this seems like a comment it should be up to the OP to make instead of virtue signaling.
From the list of virtues, which one was this signaling? https://www.virtuesforlife.com/virtues-list/
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Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model
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Finally good news about the AI doing something good for the people.
People need to understand that a lot of angst around AI comes from AI enabling people to do things that they formally needed to go through gatekeepers for. The angst is coming from the gatekeepers. AI has been a boon for me and my non-tech job. I can pump out bespoke apps all day without having to get bent on $5000/yr/usr engineering software packages. I have a website for my side business that looks and functions pr…
I highly doubt "pumping out bespoke apps all day" is possible yet besides 100% boilerplate, and when possible then no good for any other purpose than enshittifiying the web, and at that point not profitable because everyone can do it.
I use AI daily as a senior coder for search and docs, and when used for prototyping you still need to be a senior coder to go from say 60% boilerplate to 100% finished app/site/whatever unless it's incredibly simple.
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> As a blind person, AI has changed my life. Something one doesn't see in news headlines. Happy to see this comment.
Like many others, I too would very much like to hear about this. I taught our entry-level calculus course a few years ago and had two blind students in the class. The technology available for supporting them was abysmal then -- the toolchain for typesetting math for screen readers was unreliable (and anyway very slow), for braille was non-existent, and translating figures into braille involved sending material out to…
For a physical view on this see:
https://www.reddit.com/r/openscad/comments/1p6iv5y/christmas...
The creator, https://www.reddit.com/user/Mrblindguardian/ has asked for help a few times in the past (I provided feedback when I could), but hasn't needed to as often of late, presumably due to using one or more LLMs.
Re: Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model
#104Apple has a video understanding model too. I can't wait to find out what accessibility stuff they'll do with the models. As a blind person, AI has changed my life.
I wonder if there's anything that can help blind people to navigate the world more easily - I guess in the future AR Glasses won't just be for the sighted but allow people without vision to be helped considerably. It really is both amazing and terrifying the future we're heading towards.
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#105Apple has a video understanding model too. I can't wait to find out what accessibility stuff they'll do with the models. As a blind person, AI has changed my life.
> As a blind person, AI has changed my life.
I know this is a low quality comment, but I'm genuinely happy for you.
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#106The number of video models that are worse than Wan 2.2 and can safely be ignored has increased by 1.
This doesn’t look like it was intended to compete. The research appears interesting
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#107Apple has a video understanding model too. I can't wait to find out what accessibility stuff they'll do with the models. As a blind person, AI has changed my life.
One cool feature they added for deaf parents a few years ago was a notification when it detects a baby crying.
My wife is deaf, and we had one kid in 2023 and twins in 2025. There's been a noticeable improvement baby cry detection! In 2023, the best we could find was a specialized device that cost over $1,000 and has all sorts of flakiness/issues. Today, the built-in detection on her (android) phone + watch is better than that device, and a lot more convenient.
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People need to understand that a lot of angst around AI comes from AI enabling people to do things that they formally needed to go through gatekeepers for. The angst is coming from the gatekeepers. AI has been a boon for me and my non-tech job. I can pump out bespoke apps all day without having to get bent on $5000/yr/usr engineering software packages. I have a website for my side business that looks and functions pr…
I highly doubt "pumping out bespoke apps all day" is possible yet besides 100% boilerplate, and when possible then no good for any other purpose than enshittifiying the web, and at that point not profitable because everyone can do it. I use AI daily as a senior coder for search and docs, and when used for prototyping you still need to be a senior coder to go from say 60% boilerplate to 100% finished app/site/whatever…
Often the problem with tech people is they think software only exists for tech or for being sold to others from tech.
Nothing I do is in the tech industry. It's all manufacturing and all the software is for in-house processes.
Believe it or not, software is useful to everyone and no longer needs to originate from someone who only knows software.
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One cool feature they added for deaf parents a few years ago was a notification when it detects a baby crying.
I also got notification on my apple watch, while being away from the house, that the homepod mini heard our fire alarm going off. A call home let us know that our son had set it off learning to reverse-sear his steak.
If the fire alarm didn't go off, you didn't sear hard enough. :)
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What are you trying to point out with your graph in general? Write that basically. Usually graphs are added for some purpose, and assuming it's not purposefully misleading, verbalizing the purpose usually works well.
I might be an unusual case, but when I present graphs/charts it's not usually because I'm trying to point something out. It's usually a "here's some data, what conclusions do you draw from this?" and hopefully a discussion will follow. Example from recently: "Here is a recent survey of adults in the US and their religious identification, church attendance levels, self-reported "spirituality" level, etc. What do you t…
An image is the wrong way to convey something like that to a blind person. As written in one of my other comments, give the data in a table format or a custom widget that could be explored.