Robin Evans 🙏@Robinzz3@aus.social

HAVE I BROKEN YOU? 💎

Something happened this morning that completely blew me away.

I’m disabled; typing is difficult. For years, the keyboard has determined how quickly I can participate online. I generally avoided social media because typing was so laboriously slow. It was simply easier not to participate.

Then something changed.

ChatGPT suddenly appeared in a whole new arrangement. The blue orb was now bouncing just above the text input field at the bottom of the screen, and I could also see the actual typed words GPT and I were speaking as we spoke them.

At first, I didn’t know what was happening and, thinking out loud, I actually said, “Have I broken you?”

I hadn’t, apparently.

Then GPT calmly explained the new interface to me as though it were a perfectly ordinary change. But for me, it was anything but. I was talking by voice and reading the conversation as streaming text, without typing anything.

Then the penny dropped.

I WAS USING THE COMPUTER AT THE SPEED OF SPEECH,
NOT AT THE SPEED OF MY DISABILITY.

That is an accessibility story worth talking about. For decades, humans have had to adapt to computers: keyboards, mice, menus and software. Now the computer is beginning to adapt to us.

For millions and millions of people with disabilities all around the world, AI isn’t just a clever chatbot or productivity tool. It can mean participating freely online without the machinery getting in the way.

Accessibility shouldn’t be a footnote in the AI story. It should be one of the headlines.

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A disabled older man with long white hair and beard sits at his desk wearing headphones, with a small white dog on his lap. His iMac shows a live ChatGPT voice conversation alongside the glowing blue voice orb. On screen he has asked, “Have I broken you?” ChatGPT replies that he hasn’t and explains that their spoken conversation is appearing as text in real time.
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Replying to @⁨Robinzz3@aus.social⁩

> I WAS USING THE COMPUTER AT THE SPEED OF SPEECH, NOT AT THE SPEED OF MY DISABILITY.

oh, man.. It amazes me how many people don't have vision (not literally). Even StarTrek in 70 already was onto something. "Computer, do X". And we finally almost there! You finally can have computer w/out keyboard, just tell it in plain human language what you want it to do. And then we have many haters, who so afraid to lose their only thing they can do in life, I mean boring job that you easily can replace by automation

AI *is* the new wheel.. new steam engine.. embrace for earth shaking changes. New power tool is already useful for helping people to see and describe, to translate!! I admit, sometimes it does not perfect job, but now you can communicate to people in many, many languages w/out even learning or booking a real human translator, just use this amazing thing

Sad part is competition between all countries, because we still fighting for shitty reasons. Imagine if all this effort went into one single development for humanity

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