re the rabbit r1's “ability to point the camera at a chunk of text and tell it to “explain this to me like I’m a 3rd grader” is fairly incredible”
-- feels like this is a sort of accessibility feature that Apple could do really well at, given their history and approach to accessibility. They've already been making little steps of progress here
see: Apple's door detection for people who are blind are with low vision, from 2022: locates doors, describes whether it's open/closed, whether opening requires pushing/turning a knob/pulling a handle; reads signs and symbols around the door like room number & presence of accessible entrance symbol
@danhon
It does sort of feel like the techbros are telling on their own functional illiteracy (or their marks') if they think that "turn paragraph of written text into an audio explanation for nine year olds" is a killer app on the road to "superintelligent" machines
The functional literacy rate in the U.S. is atrocious. It's why the U.S. government advises that content be written to an eighth grade reading level or lower, and emphasis on lower.
(I know you mean there's a difference between explain-as-if-I'm-nine for people who are capable of it, but are “lazy”)
@danhon Yeah, to me at least that feels like interestingly equivalent levels of utility magic to the point-your-camera-at-a-foreign-sign-and-see-it-in-your-native-language apps.
three pages of lawyer fine print are, in the best case, three pages because they're being very very precise. they may well expand to thirty pages of eighth grade reading level -- which might be fine
More useful is to identify the parts of the boilerplate that are unexpected
"Hey this shrink-wrap license for a flashlight app also commits you to uploading the contents of your phone any time they ask. Maybe this is news to you?"
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