It's June 10, 2024, at 4:00 PM Central US time. Almost every blind person that owns an iPhone has installed the iOS 18 beta. Some are playing retro games with the new, AI driven screen recognition. Others are gladly using DecTalk as their main voice, the Enhanced Siri voices that use ML to speak using emotion and context, as their reading voice, Eloquence as their notification voice (sent to one ear to minimize distractions), and finding it amazing that VoiceOver emphasizes italic text, and emboldens bold text. Others are finding it amazing that they can navigate their whole phone using Braille screen input, searching to find things by typing a few letters, or just swiping down through everything. A few are connecting their multi-line Braille displays, and feeling app icons and images, made much more understandable through touch, using an AI filter.
The next day, when news of all these features filters down to Android users, they quickly begin hammering Google, wanting DecTalk and Eloquence on their Pixel phones, like iOS users have. But Google is silent as always, only just now having given Chromebook users high quality Google TTS voices.
Note: great liberty has been taken to imagine the coolest outcome for the vague feature announcements Apple gave for VoiceOver users. We'll see just how cool, or not, they actually are on June 10.
Chromebooks already have great screen reading capabilities built in...
Awww Google, how cute of you. Great? Nope. Next time, remember. Nothing about us, without us. ChromeVox has barely been updated in years, just like VoiceOver for Mac, and Narrator. ChromeVox barely has any options for fine-tuning verbosity, keyboard commands, pronunciation, and some keyboard commands, like Search + Control + A for accessibility actions, aren't even well-documented. I should know. I had to use an Acer Spin 713 for a good 3 months as my primary laptop. So kindly stop talking, then ask, then act before you speak further.
"Updated keyboard shortcuts and first-letters navigation in Google Drive"...
First letters navigation? Come on. Any blind person can tell that this wasn't written by anyone who uses these technologies.
And nowhere in this article is anything new for ChromeVox. See? This is the kind of, frankly, bullshit that I hate on GAAD. Just shut your mouth and listen for once.
Google play has not yanked Magic 2014 and 2015 from downloading (they are in my library), but 2014 is unplayable due to the market not working. I used to get the version from Amazon App Store, but this is now removed!?! IS this even legal!!! There is no way to access my purchase anymore!
Piracy? "If purchase isn't ownership, then piracy isn't theft"
I have receipts that show I am supposed to have it!
Gemini : Google utilisera son modèle d'IA pour détecter les arnaques lors des appels téléphoniques, elle suscite des inquiétudes quant à la vie privée, car le système écoute les conversations (Developpez) :
The only useful aspect of Google's "Help me write" AI feature is that since #Google admits the text that you write can be reviewed by humans (don't say anything personal), this feature could be used in a contest. See who can submit witty enough missives to "Help me write" so that the likely minimum wage workers who have to spend their days reviewing this crap will do spit takes all over their screens.
Google showed off new business AI solutions while promoting their water cooled data centers. Now we find out Microsoft is not only failing to meet their carbon emissions goal, their emissions are actually UP 30%.
I just don't see how this era of cloud AI is going to be a sustainable business model...
I remember the days when people were furious Google was scanning their emails to serve ads. Now we’ve reached the point that everything you send and receive is being filtered through its AI model and you’re expected to love it.
Last wk, #Meta revealed (in a motion tried to dismiss: FTC anti-mon. lawsuit) that IG made $32.4B in 2021 ad rev. -shocking -consider #Google's YouTube made $28.8B -same period. App made ~30% of Meta's entire rev. in the early part of 2022. 96% of Meta's $40.1B Q4 2023 rev. came from ads +made >$100B since 2021 -likely to continue -only thing these platforms care about is rev.⬆️. In America, 83% of adults use YouTube, 68%: IG: 47%." #AI#Antitrusthttps://www.wheresyoured.at/the-great-looting-of-the-internet/
This Verge piece highlights challenges with #AI and search. When you #Google a business capability, AI will give an authoritative result that is not authoritative — possibly a hallucination — like an AI-recommended electrician or doctor. There will be no click-through to a site, so Google won’t know it surfaced garbage. Consumers need to evaluate results. Also, new entrants will be excluded from recommendations, maybe for a lack of Google Business reviews used as weights. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24154808/ai-chatgpt-google-gemini-microsoft-copilot-hallucination-wrong
Münzgroße #Tracker sollen dabei helfen, etwa verlorene Geldbörsen wiederzufinden. Sie sind zugleich ein ideales Werkzeug, um andere heimlich zu orten. Mit einem gemeinsamen Standard wollen #Apple und #Google jetzt vor „unerwünschtem Tracking“ warnen. Die Initiative kommt reichlich spät.
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Google is feeling so emboldened by the AI hype that it wants to take another swing at Google Glass. Not only this product, but the entire company needs to feel consumers’ wrath if it dares to even try.
Google I/O wrapped up, and I have a LOT of thoughts. Shot a quick reaction video on the keynote here https://somegadgetguy.com/b/455
Some really interesting AI tools are coming, but will Gemini search continue hurting website traffic?
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The latest Google I/O and Android has brought forth a wealth of exciting updates and announcements, highlighting the growing influence of AI on the future of mobile technology. I am eager to see how these developments will shape the Android ecosystem and the broader tech landscape in the years to come. As AI continues to evolve...