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I think they care more about being a tech demo and positive press for OpenAI. There's no advantage here, only risk.

Not to mention I imagine the carbon cost of pushing this through AI is much higher than just using humans.

No, this is genuinely a useful technology. Blind people are getting a ton of value out of it. It's way faster than humans, you can do it quietly without bothering anyone, and honestly it's better at describing some things than 90% of humans are.

There are a lot of things that are just tech demos. This is far more than that.

You apparently have no personal experience wth needing help. Can you pleas take your AI-angst somewhere else, and leave the best innovation that assistive technologies have ever made, for those to discuss which actually know what they are talking about?

This sort of dismissive comment is very anti-social and full of hidden hatred. Projecting your squarrels with a company onto people that really need the help provided.

And before you click, I am that pissed because I am blind. You have absolutenly no idea what that means, and what BeMyEyes and BeMyAI did for us. Just go home and hate someone else please.

I'm sorry, but after seeing numerous self driving cars plow into people and no clear testing about what's safe when the platform already provides instant access to a live human, I'm really worried about technologies like this.

you've seen numerous self driving cars plow into people? i'd love to learn more, could you provide some links?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg

That death is of course tragic, but it's important to put it in context.

That's the only death of a self-driving car. That's the only one. There was a safety driver with their hands on the wheel, and they didn't see the pedestrian either. And that was an Uber self-driving car, and they've since canceled that project.

While incredibly tragic, it's not at all fair to say that self-driving cars are constantly plowing into people.

Waymo has driven more than 1 million miles with no human injuries. That's dramatically better than any human driver.

Cruise is a close second in number of miles, also with no human injuries.

What makes you think random human volunteers are any safer when it comes to being trolled?

Be My Eyes has existed since 2015. If trolling is common, there should be reports of it online. A cursory search hasn’t revealed anything, but maybe you’ll find something.

Trolling isn't a big problem, but many humans have good intentions but just aren't that helpful. Some want to be chatty or give unsolicited advice. Some just aren't very good at tech. Some just aren't very good at describing things clearly.

Don’t you think blind people are smart enough to know when something requires a human to review versus an AI?

Is this some sort of sarcastic joke? No, I absolutely don't think that people who are unable to see could know whether the thing they cannot see could accurately be described by an AI.

Can you give an example of the dangerous situation you are imagining here? I do not see how this app could be dangerous unless combined with poor judgment and failure to follow instructions (e.g., do not use to read medicine labels, do not use to cross the road).

You've come to this conclusion without setting eyes on my individual pill bottle collection? How?

Perhaps critical thinking is unrelated to sight?

> Just go home and hate someone else please.

I didn't read any hate towards anyone in the previous comment?

I’d say your comment is even more dismissive, because at least the one you replied to actually makes a point where yours is just a personal attack

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