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Ah yes the blind person who constantly needs to know if two lines intersect.

Let's just ignore what a blind person normally needs to know.

You know what blind people ask? Sometimes there daily routine is broken because there is some type of construction and models can tell you this.

Sometimes they need to read a basic sign and models can do this.

Those models help people already and they will continue to get better.

I'm not sure if I'm more frustrated how condescending the authors are or your ignorance.

Valid criticism doesn't need to be shitty



As an aside... from 2016 this is what was a valid use case for a blind person with an app.

Seeing AI 2016 Prototype - A Microsoft research project - https://youtu.be/R2mC-NUAmMk

https://www.seeingai.com are the actual working apps.

The version from 2016 I recall showing (pun not intended) to a coworker who had some significant vision impairments and he was really excited about what it could do back then.

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I still remain quite impressed with its ability to parse the picture and likely reason behind it https://imgur.com/a/JZBTk2t




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