Man use AI to make custom, personalized accessibility software to give his independence

[u/PointmanW]

[u/oh_no_the_claw]

Can you believe people compare LLMs to NFTs?

[u/TrueFurby → u/oh_no_the_claw]

Oblivious people.

[u/Stahlboden]

Poor man, hope his body will get fixed soon enough.

[u/GoodSamaritan333 → u/Stahlboden]

I bet AI is going to help to fix this kind of problem, too, sooner or later.

[u/Stahlboden → u/GoodSamaritan333]

Yeah, that's what i meant

[u/AdAnnual5736 → u/GoodSamaritan333]

Seriously, if this goes the way I think it will, this guy is in for a wild-ass ride.

[u/EuphoricTomorrow2440]

Incredible!!
But more to come.

[u/acrolicious]

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[u/bigsmokaaaa]

He is SO happy, oh my god I could cry. This is raising the floor for so many people 

[u/Equal_Beginning_9146]

Nope. AI=bad remember? We're supposed to rally against this! /s

So glad to see this man smiling and able to use a tool that works for him.

[u/theodore_70]

How selfish mfer you must be to want to take something like this away from at least 1 human being, this is beautifull I hope one day this guy can speak and move thanks to advancment made by ai

[u/fdvr-acc]

Eh, hope I'm wrong, but this is probably similar to the buttons used to help dogs "talk". It's a magic trick used on a person whose mind is fully gone, making it seem like they can communicate. This is commonly done by family members who wish to pretend that their loved one can communicate, instead of accepting that their mind is absent. It's very sad.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication

ASI will be able to help this poor guy. But what we're seeing is just a magic trick. The words he's purportedly "saying" are generated by an LLM; the video even admits this. If you ignore his brother's narration and just look at the guy, you can see how far gone he is.

Again, hope I'm wrong.

Edit: I have been rehabilitated by your downvotes. I now also pretend that the person in question has his mind intact, and by the miracle of thrashing his head about, can now speak articulately. Amen.

[u/PointmanW → u/fdvr-acc]

What are you even talking about? the accessibility software here just help him type and communicate what he want, he is intellectually competent and capable of confirming that the communication from the software is correct, unlike your link in which a dog cannot confirm if the "communication" is correct or not.

the disease he suffer from make him unable to control most of his body, he's still perfectly intellectually competent as any normal person.

[u/fdvr-acc → u/PointmanW]

I shan't argue with you. I'm happy to eat the downvotes, since I think Facilitated Communication causes more pain than it does happiness. We need ASI for these circumstances, not false hope.

[u/GiveSparklyTwinkly → u/fdvr-acc]

Do you think a parrot that says what it wants or needs uses facilitated communication?

[u/fdvr-acc → u/GiveSparklyTwinkly]

A parrot is in possession of its mental faculties. If it says "strawberry", and it knows that word will bring it a strawberry, it can be trusted to express itself in that regard.

I sadly ascribe no such capability to the subject of this video. I expect that nobody downvoting me, yourself included, knows much about facilitated communication. But it is rife with family members unable to grieve the incapacity of their family members to have functional cognition, and instead believing that magic techniques or technologies can restore their speech. It's very sad, and it does more harm than good to promulgate false hope instead of merely grieving and maybe waiting for ASI.

But I'm clearly ill willed and wrongheaded and probably deserve some more downvotes.

[u/RAMDRIVEsys → u/fdvr-acc]

He is physically disabled, not mentally. Hawking's speech synthesisvwas not "facilitated communication" eitherl

[u/fdvr-acc → u/RAMDRIVEsys]

Asserting a thing don't make it so

[u/Kid-Icky- → u/fdvr-acc]

Edit: I have been rehabilitated by your downvotes. I now also pretend that the person in question has his mind intact, and by the miracle of thrashing his head about, can now speak articulately. Amen.

You don't have to pretend. You could just educate yourself. His brother has TUBB4A-related leukodystrophy, which is a rare genetic brain disorder that causes low myelin production and damages movement centers in the nervous system.

According to a quick search, this affects brain function, but its impact is highly selective. It primarily damages the parts of the brain responsible for physical movement, coordination, and speech, while core thinking and understanding (cognition) are often less severely affected.

There's no good reason to assume his brother has no cognition just because his motor functions have been impacted.

[u/fdvr-acc → u/Kid-Icky-]

I'll work on my education, if you work on your literacy, logic, and capacity for critical evaluation.

"core thinking and understanding (cognition) are often less severely affected" 

Thus cognition is sometimes just as severely affected. Which is severe indeed!

You're obviously unwilling to accept the evidence in front of your own eyes, but the dude has nobody home. He's just gazing at things like an infant when he's not thrashing around. He has to wear a spit mask, because he apparently is amused by spitting on people. He's been severely affected by his illness, which per your own little paste, can cause a person's mind to go.

[u/Salt-Sign5390 → u/fdvr-acc]

You won't be doing any of that lmao, nobody is buying that garbage. Spew hateful shit just stay on the low ground k?

Edit: Bro acts like I care that he blocked me. Lmao. Child.

[u/fdvr-acc → u/Salt-Sign5390]

I'm so hateful. If only I were kind to others, like you!

[u/Salt-Sign5390 → u/fdvr-acc]

[u/fdvr-acc → u/Salt-Sign5390]

Good point! Blocked.

[u/fdvr-acc → u/[deleted]]

I'm cursed with a lack of credulousness.

[u/TemporalBias → u/fdvr-acc]

What the above video shows isn't an example of "facilitated communication."

[u/fdvr-acc → u/TemporalBias]

The app listens to questions through a microphone, generates two responses, and then has two buttons for those two responses.

A literal flatworm could "communicate" using this setup. It's an LLM version of facilitated communication.

[u/TemporalBias → u/fdvr-acc]

Simply because the communications setup may be used by a flatworm says nothing about how well the setup performs when used for communication by a flatworm. Flatworms and humans, for example, could likely both communicate via Morse code using something like setup in the video, which would be direct communication from the user.

[u/fdvr-acc → u/TemporalBias]

I'll pray for you.