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Written by Ben Harris-Roxas on 2024-12-20 at 10:02

An interesting post from DAIR https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/elders/

I was nodding along in parts:

“We reimagine a better internet, one that is truly inclusive and accessible to all. It is an internet that seamlessly adapts to the needs of every user regardless of their age, the languages they speak, or the type of interface they can use. An internet that reflects our histories, and not just those of hegemonic cultures; one that enables our elders to connect with the world, their community and loved ones.”

But I sometimes wonder what it would take to get tech people to realise that social problems, especially those of alienation, can never have tech solutions alone. In the very next paragraph:

“We are actively working to build and shape this technological future that we want. Lesan.ai is working on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Machine Translation (MT) and Text to Speech (TTS) tools that can make the internet more accessible for our grandmothers regardless of the language they speak or their technical fluency.”

The real value of interdisciplinarity is that it forces one to speak with others who don’t suffer from the same epistemological brainrot.

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