That's why I included the part about being locked in a small room with only text for input. People who are deaf and blind still interact with the world through their other senses. GPT-4 has no other senses and no body.
I agree these are a travesty no consumer wants, except I notice they do have a braille plaque and a button with a little grill. I presume they will speak their contents to you if you are vision impaired.
The blind often have an exceptionally developed sense of hearing. Don't you think they'd much rather just have the ability to see?
These strengths do exist, but are completely wiped off the table and then some by the unimaginable negative impact that these brain function incompatibilities have on daily life.
And then on top of that Google announces they're going to sabotage your accessible toilets and steal your crutches.
I'm sure my neighbor, who's blind, would appreciate piezo buttons. I had to help her deduce why her screen reader would "die" on her Dell laptop periodically. It turns out that it has capacitive buttons for Mute/Volume, and the only feedback from them is an LED. She would occasionally brush her fingers over the buttons and end up inadvertently muting the laptop.
As a blind person I can confirm that the braille does not, in fact, say anything in particular. It'd be an amusing experiment to sneak in a couple easter eggs into this that spell out actual words ;)
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