Well, let me tell you a story. I have early beta access to GPT-4 with the ability to add pictures to the chat. This is rolled out as part of BeMyEyes, a volun

Well, let me tell you a story. I have early beta access to GPT-4 with the ability to add pictures to the chat. This is rolled out as part of BeMyEyes, a volunteer-based app which lets volunteers have access to the camera for helping blind people. Now, BeMyAI lets me take a picture, send it to the AI, and have it describe the picture to me. Including OCR and text translation. And I can ask questions, interrogating the AI about the current picture. I can also add more pictures to the "chat", and the AI can see all of them, and even compare differences. I am 100% blind. After a few days of testing, I already know the AI is better then most humans I'd randomly ask to help me with pictures or scene descriptions. And it is more capable, as it can translate between every language I've encountered so far. If you ask me, the AI-will-kill-the-world crowd has a overly pessimistic view when it comes to AI, or they have been cought in the recent alarmism movement, or something. GPT-4 with picture integration is such a powerful feature, I'd say we haven't had anything equivant in terms of flexibility in the assistive technology market since, what, 30 years? This feature will liberate a few millions of blind people from the barriers put in fromt of them by society. And guess what, society didn't really solve them so far, OpenAI solved them as a side effect. But IT-activist still insist on seeing evil and demise everywhere.