Gregory's ServerI think though even if they did have the disclaimer, people would just ignore it or forget about it eventually. That is my main concern. Image recognition and OCR were never really reliable but they didn't have the ability to double down on their accuracy, and sometimes quite strongly too. So my feelings on this whole thing are very mixed. On the one hand I'm glad to have access to, let's be honest here, very good image recognition. But on the other hand this thing can assure you that it's correct even if it isn't. This is image recognition that talks to you. AI training biases and all.
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@talon Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I don't have access yet and I'm not surprised about what you said. I wished some of the blindeness tech podcasts that have covered it in the past would have been more balanced. I remember one where the Be My Eyes representative said they gave it an image of a railway map of India and asked it to find a train connection from one city to another and then asked it to tell them what to say in Hindi to buy the ticket. And they said, of course,  @SunDial79 It is important that in marketting materials you present your product as favourably as possible. Sadly though they don’t employ me to do their marketting, so I will be very honest about my experience. I think it’s important that people understand what this does, and what this doesn’t. @talon Yes, sure. But I think they should be asked the right questions, too. @SunDial79 I think the fact is that people are very excited about this. Rightly so. This is quite a big leap in image descriptions. But it is very easy to lose track this way, and who wants to be negative about their own product? @talon it had worked. The host of the podcast seemed impressed and I was disappointed they didn't ask how the Be My Eyes reps had checked that the answer was correct. Just a few days ago I had read an article written without AI, I assume, where a journalist of a mainstream magazine wrote you couldn't say please and thank you in Hindi. At uni I learnt how to say it. As long as we don't need AI to make up things about subjects we know little about, how are we supposed to deal with AI errors. One has to wonder, with the recent news about openai and bankruptcy, what will happen if they can't find another investor? This is why I want an offline AI for this even if the results are worse still.  @talon I mean, their models are worth *something*. At worst, if they do go into bankruptcy and get sold off, somebody else will get them and will be able to do with them as they please. It probably won’t be a free for all any more, but there’s definitely money to be made there.  @talon Even if they do, which I doubt, their assets will be bought out by someone. Right now, their structure isn't defined by profit. So they haven't explored all the productization possibilities. There's plenty going on in the open source space. I'm not concerned about losing functionality. @talon Maybe a weird question, but I also wonder if anyone tested it with adult content? I find myself wondering if the prudish nature of ChatGPT made it in as well. @MutedTrampet I don't dare. My account might get suspended. Which yes. Is another big problem. |
Just to balance out my negatives with some positives here. The descriptions are a world apart from something like google Bard in my experience. In some instances it did tell me to call an actual assistant. And if a picture is overly terrible it seems to refuse to tell me anything about the picture and asks me to take another one, or again call for actual support. How reliable this is I can't say, but it does seem to be on the careful side of things here, as much as an AI can be, anyway. I'm personifying it a lot but mostly just for ease of expression. I'm relatively aware of how this works. So again I do think this does have use. But the asterisk here is very big.
Just to balance out my negatives with some positives here. The descriptions are a world apart from something like google Bard in my experience. In some instances it did tell me to call an actual assistant. And if a picture is overly terrible it seems to refuse to tell me anything about the picture and asks me to take another one, or again call for actual support. How reliable this is I can't say, but it does seem to be on the careful side of things here, as much as an AI can be, anyway. I'm personifying...