Expert Resources: AI
These are the items that relate to AI found on the AbilityNet website. They may be factsheets, webinars, news stories, blog posts or reports.
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Anonymous | 19 Feb 2020Microsoft's AI for Good programme uses tech to boost environmental sustainability, accessibility, humanitarian action and cultural heritage.
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Robin Christopherson | 13 Feb 2020Virtual assistants like Alexa and Siri are now part of our everyday lives. It’s as natural to talk to a device and receive a spoken (or on-screen) nugget of info, as it is to whip out our phone to check the weather, Google that thing or listen to music. A new project from the clever guys at MIT (...
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Adam Tweed | 12 Dec 2019Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and the potential for the emergence of (unintended) bias towards disabled people was the topic of discussion at the Techshare Pro 2019 panel on “Ethics, Machine Learning and Disabilities” which was chaired by AbilityNet’s Abi James and included...
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Robin Christopherson | 20 Feb 2019A CAPTCHA, (an acronym for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart"), is a test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. You've all seen those distorted codes or image-selection challenges that you need to pass to sign up for a site or buy...
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Robin Christopherson | 28 Aug 2018Smartspeaker ownership is growing rapidly. Already up 3% in 2018 to date, ownership of voice-activated speakers now stands at 8% of the adult UK population - with voice searches more generally also rising rapidly. The GOV.UK team have been working hard at bringing their information available online...
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Joe Chidzik | 26 Mar 2018AbilityNet’s senior accessibility and usability consultant Joe Chidzik explores five ways AI could help make websites more accessible to people with disabilities
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Mark Walker | 26 Feb 2018Robin Christopherson will be speaking about the role of Alexa and other smartspeakers at the BDF Technology Taskforce in London on 27 Feb 2018.
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Claudia.Cahalane | 20 Dec 2017AI-powered image recognition is taking off and it's helping blind people gain a better understanding of the world around them. At the AbilityNet technology and disability event last month, TechShare Pro, we heard from Orcam, the makers of AI vision tech MyEye who've recently launched MyEye 2.0.
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Claudia.Cahalane | 18 Dec 2017The latest advances in Artificial Intelligence are powering ever-greater voice-recognition capabilities - but how do we build machines we can to talk in ways that are intelligible and sensible to a range of people, including those with disabilities, asks Léonie Watson’s at TechShare Pro.
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Robin Christopherson | 14 Dec 2017Seeing AI: Microsoft’s revolutionary app that helps blind users understand the world around them, has just got even better with the addition of several new functions including handwriting and colour recognition. The best app to help blind users access the world has just got even better, and it’s...