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AI is going great for the blind (2023)

https://robertkingett.com/posts/6230/
15•ljlolel•2h ago

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paulsutter•36m ago
> Now that AI is a thing now, I doubt OCR and even self-driving cars will get any significant advancements.

Great to read that blind folks get so much benefit from LLMs. But this one quote seemed odd. The most amazing OCR and document attribution products are becoming available due to LLMs

ljlolel•33m ago
This was 2023 so I can only assume it’s gotten even better!
simonw•21m ago
The headline is clearly meant to be sarcastic but the actual body of the text seems to indicate that AI back in 2023 was going pretty great for the blind - it mostly reports on others who are enthusiastic adopters of it, despite the author's own misgivings.

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