Let The Right Hon In
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
Eaton
@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.
Let The Right Hon In
@trochee I'm actually sympathetic to this.
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”)
Jeremy Kahn
@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
Eaton
@danhon YES, identifying the divergence between “Hey, this is the chatty intro to a recipe, it is safe to aggressively summarize" and "This is your employment contract, we can only reduce it so far before it's dangerous" is a really critical distinction.
Let The Right Hon In
@trochee @eaton yeah, and do it reliably :)
but.
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
Jeremy Kahn
I mean, something that could scan three pages of lawyer fine print and translate to eighth grade reading level
Okay, that's useful.
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