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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/
Or should I too perhaps wait for OP to respond.
Looks good. I wonder what use case Apple has in mind though, or I suppose this is just what the researchers themselves were interested in, perhaps due to the current zeitgeist. I'm not really sure how it works at big tech companies with regards to research, are there top down mandates?
Apple 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.
Finally good news about the AI doing something good for the people.
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 professionally and was done with a $20 monthly AI subscription instead of a $2000 contractor.
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Charts are one I've wondered about, do I need to try to describe the trend of the data, or provide several conclusions that a person seeing the chart might draw? Just saying "It's a chart" doesn't feel like it'd be useful to someone who can't see the chart. But if the other text on the page talks about the chart, then maybe identifying it as the chart is enough?
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.
Would love to hear a good example of alt text for something like that where the data isn't necessarily clear and I also don't want to do any interpreting of the data lest I influence the person's opinion.
Apple 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. Something one doesn't see in news headlines. Happy to see this comment.
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 a vendor and waiting weeks. I would love to hear how we may better support our students in subjects like math, chemistry, physics, etc, that depend so much on visualization.
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Hilariously, he beat the other teams in the “Say What You See” round (yes, really) of last year’s Big fat Quiz. No AI involved. https://youtu.be/i5NvNXz2TSE?t=4732
Haha that's great! I'm not a fan of his (nothing against him, just not my cup of tea when it comes to comedy and mostly not been interested in other stuff he's done), but the few times I have seen him as a guest on shows it's been clear that he's a generally clever person.
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+1 and I would be curious to read and learn more about it.
A blind comedian / TV personality in the UK has just done a TV show on this subject - I haven't seen it, but here's a recent article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/23/chris-m...
He did a great skit with Lee Mack at the BAFTAs 2022[0], riffing on the autocue the speakers use for announcing awards.
This Apple license is click wrap MIT with the rights, at least, to modify and redistribute the model itself. I suppose I should be grateful for that much openness, at least.
Apple 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.
A call home let us know that our son had set it off learning to reverse-sear his steak.
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> Can you share some ways AI has changed your life? A question directed to GP, directly asking about their life and pointing this out is somehow virtue signalling, OK.
You can safely assume that anyone who uses “virtue signaling” unironically has nothing substantive to say.
Maybe you’re just being defensive? I’m sure he didn’t mean an attack at you personally.