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I have been beta-testing BeMyAI. For roughly a month. It is a milestone in independence. It typically describes scenes in a very usefu way, allows me to ask
by lynx23 3y ago
I have been beta-testing BeMyAI. For roughly a month. It is a milestone in independence. It typically describes scenes in a very usefu way, allows me to ask detail questions, can compare differences in pictures, has a very good OCR and can aso translate foreign languages. Just a few examples:
* It can help reading a menu. But not just straight linear reading... I told it I prefer veggie today, but would also eat something light with meat. So it highlighted the veggie options for me, and in one case even tried to guess the type of dish from a photo which lacked a text description.
* I had it search for cobwebs on a ceiling. Vacuumed them away, and took a second picture, asking if they were gone now.
* It told me a houseplant of mine has yellow leaves, and told me which by describing a path via the stems.
In general, the scene description is very good, and the built-in (implicit) OCR is just a game changer. It is like having a real human reading something to you. Typically, you dont want the human to read all the text on the page, typically you are only interested in some detail, and usually instruct the helper about that so they dont have to read everything to you. The same now wors with an AI, with consistent quality.
Volunteers are great, dont get me wrong, but this comes with a lot of problems. You sometimes have to request help several times, because frankly, sometimes you simply get people who can not help you due to their own abilities. Also, the video feed is demanding on connectivity. If I try to read a menu in the train with volunteers, most of the time this will fail due to "blurry vision" and the camera dropping out. Sending a single picture every few minutes is totally OK in these situations.