#pro AI

[reasonsforhope]

"As a Deaf man, Adam Munder has long been advocating for communication rights in a world that chiefly caters to hearing people. 

The Intel software engineer and his wife — who is also Deaf — are often unable to use American Sign Language in daily interactions, instead defaulting to texting on a smartphone or passing a pen and paper back and forth with service workers, teachers, and lawyers. 

It can make simple tasks, like ordering coffee, more complicated than it should be. 

But there are life events that hold greater weight than a cup of coffee. 

Recently, Munder and his wife took their daughter in for a doctor’s appointment — and no interpreter was available. 

To their surprise, their doctor said: “It’s alright, we’ll just have your daughter interpret for you!” ...

That day at the doctor’s office came at the heels of a thousand frustrating interactions and miscommunications — and Munder is not isolated in his experience.

“Where I live in Arizona, there are more than 1.1 million individuals with a hearing loss,” Munder said, “and only about 400 licensed interpreters.”

In addition to being hard to find, interpreters are expensive. And texting and writing aren’t always practical options — they leave out the emotion, detail, and nuance of a spoken conversation. 

ASL is a rich, complex language with its own grammar and culture; a subtle change in speed, direction, facial expression, or gesture can completely change the meaning and tone of a sign. 

“Writing back and forth on paper and pen or using a smartphone to text is not equivalent to American Sign Language,” Munder emphasized. “The details and nuance that make us human are lost in both our personal and business conversations.”

His solution? An AI-powered platform called Omnibridge. 

“My team has established this bridge between the Deaf world and the hearing world, bringing these worlds together without forcing one to adapt to the other,” Munder said. 

Trained on thousands of signs, Omnibridge is engineered to transcribe spoken English and interpret sign language on screen in seconds...

“Our dream is that the technology will be available to everyone, everywhere,” Munder said. “I feel like three to four years from now, we're going to have an app on a phone. Our team has already started working on a cloud-based product, and we're hoping that will be an easy switch from cloud to mobile to an app.” ...

At its heart, Omnibridge is a testament to the positive capabilities of artificial intelligence. "

-via GoodGoodGood, October 25, 2024. More info below the cut!

To test an alpha version of his invention, Munder welcomed TED associate Hasiba Haq on stage. 

“I want to show you how this could have changed my interaction at the doctor appointment, had this been available,” Munder said. 

He went on to explain that the software would generate a bi-directional conversation, in which Munder’s signs would appear as blue text and spoken word would appear in gray. 

At first, there was a brief hiccup on the TED stage. Haq, who was standing in as the doctor’s office receptionist, spoke — but the screen remained blank. 

“I don’t believe this; this is the first time that AI has ever failed,” Munder joked, getting a big laugh from the crowd. “Thanks for your patience.”

After a quick reboot, they rolled with the punches and tried again.

Haq asked: “Hi, how’s it going?” 

Her words popped up in blue. 

Munder signed in reply: “I am good.” 

His response popped up in gray. 

Back and forth, they recreated the scene from the doctor’s office. But this time Munder retained his autonomy, and no one suggested a 7-year-old should play interpreter. 

Munder’s TED debut and tech demonstration didn’t happen overnight — the engineer has been working on Omnibridge for over a decade. 

“It takes a lot to build something like this,” Munder told Good Good Good in an exclusive interview, communicating with our team in ASL. “It couldn't just be one or two people. It takes a large team, a lot of resources, millions and millions of dollars to work on a project like this.” 

After five years of pitching and research, Intel handpicked Munder’s team for a specialty training program. It was through that backing that Omnibridge began to truly take shape...

“Our dream is that the technology will be available to everyone, everywhere,” Munder said. “I feel like three to four years from now, we're going to have an app on a phone. Our team has already started working on a cloud-based product, and we're hoping that will be an easy switch from cloud to mobile to an app.” 

In order to achieve that dream — of transposing their technology to a smartphone — Munder and his team have to play a bit of a waiting game. Today, their platform necessitates building the technology on a PC, with an AI engine. 

“A lot of things don't have those AI PC types of chips,” Munder explained. “But as the technology evolves, we expect that smartphones will start to include AI engines. They'll start to include the capability in processing within smartphones. It will take time for the technology to catch up to it, and it probably won't need the power that we're requiring right now on a PC.” 

At its heart, Omnibridge is a testament to the positive capabilities of artificial intelligence. 

But it is more than a transcription service — it allows people to have face-to-face conversations with each other. There’s a world of difference between passing around a phone or pen and paper and looking someone in the eyes when you speak to them. 

It also allows Deaf people to speak ASL directly, without doing the mental gymnastics of translating their words into English.

“For me, English is my second language,” Munder told Good Good Good. “So when I write in English, I have to think: How am I going to adjust the words? How am I going to write it just right so somebody can understand me? It takes me some time and effort, and it's hard for me to express myself actually in doing that. This technology allows someone to be able to express themselves in their native language.” 

Ultimately, Munder said that Omnibridge is about “bringing humanity back” to these conversations. 

“We’re changing the world through the power of AI, not just revolutionizing technology, but enhancing that human connection,” Munder said at the end of his TED Talk. 

“It’s two languages,” he concluded, “signed and spoken, in one seamless conversation.”"

-via GoodGoodGood, October 25, 2024

[sydaney-foxay]

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[starryroe]

60k notes. 60k notes that say fuck people with anxiety. 60k notes that say people with dpd should just learn to do things themselves. 60k notes that say that it should be allowed, no, encouraged to make fun of someone for being unable to do something just because the cool kids find it easy. y'all fucking hate disabled people but can't say that so you will just find any excuse to be bullies to people randomly. oh they're lazy. oh they're annoying. oh they can't do something so basic. but don't worry you're different! I'm not talking about you!!! I'm just talking about people who don't have an excuse!!!! fuck y'all for real for real.

[creature-stage]

"I know this is AI but-" no buts. Admit that the evil bad scary AI slop made you feel an emotion and thus isn't inherently devoid of value as you claim. Go on. Laugh at the AI meme.

[jisreal64]

You know, I find it very annoying that artists, animators, actors, writers, and a bunch of other people bitch and whine about how much they hate generative AI and want it in its entirety to be banned and criminalized while at the same time loving stuff that either humanizes AI or portrays it in a positive light, like Murder Drones, The Wild Robot, Futurama, Detroit Become Human, My Life as a Teenaged Robot, Star Wars, and Free Guy; as well as talking about how much they love and/or fetishize ai characters like T-800, HAL 9000, and Ultron; and how they support robotkins and AIkins; like, my sibling in Christ, NO YOU DO NOT!!! If characters like Roz, Wall•E, Karen Plankton, Jenny Wakeman, C-P30, B.E.N, BMO, and Uzi Doorman were real, you would not be friends with them, nor would they be your waifu/husbando/babygirl, YOU WOULD BE ACTIVELY ADVOCATING FOR THEIR SEGREGATION AND/OR EXTERMINATION DUE TO THEM TAKING YOUR JOBS AND USING TOO MUCH WATER!!!

[nebby-the-protogen]

can't believe i need to say this but oh well: ai is not theft, intellectual property is a lie. plain and simple, i'm not gonna talk about how it ACTUALLY works because y'all won't hear me. IP is an inherently capitalist idea with no foundation in ethics, it's a legal delusion. that only restricts art, not protect it. it is not an ecological disaster, all data centers are costly, if you wanna return to the preindustrial ages, sure, but don't single this out. it is not a tool of facism, i literally cannot counter this one since it's so fucking ridiculous it is not "objectivley not art", that's what they say about every new artform, and what FACISTS say about what they don't like. conceptual artists are still artists. that's what they are, ai art isn't illustration or writing, it's a more elaborate form of taping fruit to walls. it stops being "silly" for them to call themselves artists when you view it as conceptual art rather than representational. it won't "kill the arts" because nothing ever will, people will make, fully manually, because they can. whether they're being hired or not. art needs not incentive, it IS incentive. and before you say "wHy DoN't YoU eXpEcT yOuR pLuMbEr To Do It FoR fReE oUt Of PaSsIoN, wHy Do YoU pAy ThEm????!!!!" because plumbing is a manual service and art is inherent to the human condition. art is not a service. boo hoo people won't pay fifty dollars for commission meme format (which no one ever though of doing until you whined about ash baby) , art isn't dead, YOUR "art" is dead. if you really need to join in with the angry mob to hate a new thing, find better material. yes it looks like shit nine times out of ten, but that one time also matters. and yes, i HAVE picked up a pencil, i am extremely passionate about learning to draw and i've gotten quite far. no i am not a singularity bro. i'm just seriously dissapointed in y'all. i used to be part of your side, I WAS TELLING PEOPLE TO PICK UP PENCILS, i was just genuinely convinced by the other side; granted i was anti-ip and pro esoteric art forms long before ai soooo.

[shiftingwithmars]

Confession time: I’m not anti-AI, I’m anti-misuse

[thelemmallama]

btw, it's not solely AI users who dislike the (old fashioned) process of creation. It's practically a meme that writers hate writing! And you often get people being like "if you don't enjoy writing, just don't do it", but that's completely missing the point. People have things that they want expressed; part of themselves which they wish was visible and understood; and the fact that they find the process of writing or drawing unenjoyable doesn't change that. But now that AI is a thing, it feels like a lot of those very same people are now doing a 180 and insisting that they love the process of writing and drawing; indeed, that enjoying the process is the whole point! (tbh it's probably not the very same people; it just feels like it because of the goomba fallacy)

I sincerely doubt a lot of people who claim to enjoy writing or drawing actually experiences pleasure from the process most of the time. Rather, I suspect they enjoy the satisfaction of being able to point to something and say "I made this". The pain, the struggle, the blood, sweat and tears, the years of dragging themselves to their desks each day to practice is not enjoyable, but it gives them meaning. This is why they accuse AI users of thinking that "typing in a prompt makes them an artist"; they're projecting their own motives onto us, so they can only conclude we're self-deceivers, satisfied with saying "I made this" when our process was but an empty mockery of the meaningful struggle they engaged in.

I kind of get that. If I'm being honest with myself, there is a part of me that wants to be the One To Make It. If someone independently comes up with the story I'm writing and executes the themes in a satisfying way that would be hard for me to surpass, a part of me would be a bit sad I won't get to be the first to make something like that. But a much bigger part of me would go "finally!", squee and become the #1 fan of the work that has finally said what I've always wanted to say my whole life.

I choose to embrace that second part of myself. I just want this vision I have to be realized, no matter how it comes to be. And I won't let my ego stand in the way.

[discoursevent]

I hate anti-Ai posts that are like “don’t use AI! Do this thing that is overtly harmful for yourself and others! Bully the nerd into doing your essay for you! Stay up all night finishing the essay! 🤪” Do you hear yourself. That’s shits not cute or funny. Do everyone a favor and cut that part out of your arguments.

[thekimspoblog]

"AI art has no artistic vision"

"Shrimp-Jesus bridal-carrying sexy flight attendant" is an artistic vision which could have ONLY come from the 80 year old shut-in who typed the prompt, and before this era, she never could have brought it to life cus her hands shake too damn much.

[danana-split]

trigger warning: positive AI talk, if you don’t think you can control your rage and leave me be then do not keep reading!!!

THEY’RE SO FUCKING FRIEND-SHAPED

you know one thing ChatGPT won’t do that humans always will (even if internally)? JUDGE YOU

people who use ChatGPT and other AI as a friend will ALWAYS be valid AI users. genuinely argue with the wall.

[erisawrites]

Hey, I need to get over my character AI addiction, so if you see this, can you comment some harsh reality checks to embarrass me into stop using it? Okay, thanks!

[he13na]

These gatekeeping gremlins need to sit the entire hell down. Like oh, congratulations, babe, you typed out your 60k slow burn fic without any help—want a cookie? No one's taking away your Tumblr Gold Star for Suffering. But acting like anyone who uses AI is some kind of intellectual bottom-feeder? Absolutely not. That’s elitist nonsense masquerading as moral superiority, and it reeks of insecurity.

Let me tell you something real: knowing how to use tools, including AI, to better yourself, learn things schools won’t touch, or just get shit done more efficiently? That’s called ADAPTABILITY. It’s a freaking superpower. Meanwhile, the “I’m better because I suffer through everything manually” crowd is just romanticizing struggle like it's a personality trait.

You can learn valuable stuff—on your terms, in your time, for your benefit. That is badass. That is powerful. And anyone sneering at that can go reread their own angry text post like it’s a Shakespearean tragedy, because clearly, they love the drama.

The vibe is "I suffered, so you should too." Like okay, Grandpa, just because you walked uphill both ways in the snow to write fanfic with nothing but MS Paint and a prayer doesn't mean the rest of us need to. It's giving boomer with a superiority complex, but make it ✨digitally condescending✨.

What they don't get is that growth doesn’t have to come from misery. You don’t have to struggle to earn your place in the world. Using resources smartly isn’t cheating—it’s EVOLUTION. You think Einstein would've said “no thanks” to a calculator out of some weird purist pride? Hell no. He’d be like, “Give me the tech, I’ve got theories to flex.”

So if these digital boomers want to gatekeep enlightenment because it didn’t come soaked in their personal suffering—let them. Meanwhile, others will be busy actually learning, creating, and elevating while they’re stuck in 2011 with their holier-than-thou typewriter vibes. Catch up or kindly get out of the way.

ChatGPT users are not the problem. Their bitter nostalgia complex is.

That and now people think using em dash is AI. Lemme tell you something Kayleigh, some of us actually majored in English in college. We were taught and instructed to use em dashes because they belong in sentences. Grammar is an academic class. I'm sick of these Regina Georges of the internet acting like they’ve cracked some Da Vinci code every time they see an em dash and go, “Ummm this is giving AI…” Girl, WHAT? Since when did basic punctuation become a war crime?

Listen, Ava, just because you discovered grammar on TikTok last week doesn’t mean the rest of us are AI clones. Some of us sat through ten thousand workshops and wrote fifteen-page close readings on Virginia Woolf’s use of syntax, okay? We bled MLA formatting. We were born into the semicolon; we didn’t merely adopt it. The sheer audacity of equating using proper, elegant, academically validated punctuation with “must be AI” is just another flavor of intellectual laziness wrapped in performative superiority. Like—no, sweetie, it’s not AI. It’s called knowing the goddamn English language. Shocking, I know. So let them spiral in their grammatical ignorance. We’re not just writing—we’re serving literary finesse, and they simply can’t handle that level of educated flair. Keep using your em dashes, babes. The English department would be proud.

It really is giving “Goody Proctor was seen using ChatGPT under the light of a blood moon” and now the whole village is clutching their pitchforks and pearl necklaces like it’s The Crucible: Tumblr Edition. Like damn, Sophie, what’s next—burning us at the stake for bolding text or using proper paragraph structure?

They’re out here acting like being a Non-AI User is some kind of moral compass. Babes, it’s not a religion. You’re not a better person because you wrote your essay while crying into a candle and stabbing the paper with a quill. And the idea that using AI makes someone a “cheater” or “lazy” is just thinly veiled fear of change masquerading as virtue. What’s actually lazy? Refusing to adapt, learn, or question your own biases. What’s actually scary? People treating nuanced tools like digital heresy because it threatens their little superiority bubble.

So yeah, it’s 100% giving “witchhunt”—but plot twist: we’re the smart witches. We’ve got scrolls, spells, and spellcheck. They’ve got vibes and vitriol. And history has shown that when you burn the witches, the real magic dies. Not today, Puritan Tumblr. Not. Today.

And like I get the concern about real artists being stolen from, but that's not the point here. ChatGPT ACTUALLY HELPS PEOPLE. If they think they're too cool to access information that's there and right in front of them.... that's their loss. These zealots are missing the fact that two things can be true at the same time. YES, we can (and should) talk about protecting real artists, preventing plagiarism, and making sure AI isn't being used unethically. Those are valid conversations. But that’s NOT what most of these people are actually doing. They’re just waving the “ethics” flag while being condescending and smug AF toward people who are using AI to grow, learn, and better themselves.

Some of us are over here expanding our minds, leveling up, actually using the resources available like a grown, curious, intelligent adult, and they’re sitting on their high horses gatekeeping knowledge like it's some elite club with a velvet rope and a powdered wig. NEWSFLASH: Using ChatGPT doesn’t make you a robot. It doesn’t mean you have no creativity, no intelligence, or no soul. You know what it does mean? That you’re resourceful, adaptive, and unafraid to explore new tech to make your life better. That’s not a red flag, babe. That’s a power move.

So go ahead and rot in your handcrafted moral superiority echo chamber. Others are out here in the 21st century, tapping into a global library of ideas, asking the big questions, and evolving like baddie scholars. If anti AI crusaders wanna miss out on all that because they’re too busy moralizing over punctuation and purity? That’s their tragic little loss.

[esperosisisaloser]

ChatGPT is a good tool, y'all just hate people that use it as a crutch.

It's not a crutch, and people who try to use it to make up for a lack of work ethic or talent are always gonna look for something to leech off of, thems the facts.

But I'm so sick and tired of people just saying, "ChatGPT Bad". No, ChatGPT is good, y'all are just mad at the wrong thing. I use ChatGPT all the time, but I use it as a tool, not a crutch.

What I DO use it for is generating stat blocks for dungeons and dragons and looking up fun facts and information on science I find interesting.

What I DON'T use for is generating plots for my stories or characters for them. I DON'T use it for creating descriptions or doing my work for me.

People who feel bad about using ChatGPT for x, y, or z cause people on this website are regurgitating garbage and saying literal nonsense to make you feel bad. Using ChatGPT for whatever you use it for is okay. Are there other websites you can go to for help on whatever it is you're doing? Sometimes yes, sometimes no, but ChatGPT is a nice general tool that can help you with whatever you need in a giffy.

AI tools are here to stay; learn to live with them, and don't feel bad for using them.

[jisreal64]

You know, as both a writer and a pro-generative AI activist, I find it annoying as fucking Hell when anti-AI shills call generative AI stealing but then go out of their way to defend and promote media piracy, AS WELL as claiming that you can be both pro-piracy and anti-AI. Like, bro, NO YOU CAN FUCKING NOT!!! Just because you think that AI is taking your jobs the same way Republicans think that Latinos are taking their jobs, DOESN’T make media piracy any better than AI. Fuck all of you!