Hi Mary, I know it has been rolling out slowly but the news release today suggested it was now available to everyone. In any case, I certainly see your points and believe they are valid. Still I’m glad this is something that’s on Facebook’s radar and I love to see the step forward. I certainly agree that OCR on text would be a great next step and would help in cases where people take pictures of recipes and all manner of other text that we don’t have access to.
Cheers, Grant > On Apr 5, 2016, at 5:17 PM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, I have been seeing this for at least a month, if not more. And it > works, such as it is. It will tell you how many people are in the picture, or > if it is outdoors, or, for instance, if it is food, as you might get on a > cooking message board. I know many people are very excited about this, but > frankly, I don't see where it is very useful at this stage of the game. It > does not do OCR on the text which is a major portion of so many photos. And > of course, it can't actually describe pictures or cartoons. So the notion > that this is going to help you participate in the discussion about the photo > is frankly absurd. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 5, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Grant <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> I’ve been reading that Facebook’s artificial intelligence for pictures is >> enabled today when using the app on iOS in English. This is so visually >> impaired or blind users can identify what objects might be in pictures on >> Facebook. Has anyone gotten this to work? I am hearing no difference thus >> far. Here is the link where you can read more about this: >> http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/04/using-artificial-intelligence-to-help-blind-people-see-facebook/ >> >> <http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/04/using-artificial-intelligence-to-help-blind-people-see-facebook/> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Grant >> >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - >> you can reach Cara at [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone >> <https://groups.google.com/group/viphone>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone > <https://groups.google.com/group/viphone>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
