How AI Could Benefit the Blind
There are times when the human race is on the cusp of pioneering, innovative, and radical change such as the industrial revolution, harnessing electricity, discovering flight, inventing computing, and now developing artificial intelligence (AI).
Google’s Ray Kurzweil says in his new book, 'The Singularity is Nearer’, that we are “about to enter the ‘fifth epoch’ of intelligence, where man merges with machines - triggered by the arrival of human-level AI and brain chips like Elon Musk's Neuralink.”
Kurzweil predicts that in a decade, human intelligence will multiply millions of times over by human beings connecting directly to machines.
With this in mind, the people most likely to be assisted and benefited by AI could be those who are blind and visually impaired.