![]() ![]() The war of attrition between Reddit and its volunteers shows no sign of slowing. ( WP $)ģ Reddit suspended some protesting moderators and reinstated others ( The Information $)+ Joe Biden has met with AI critics. + OpenAI is considering making an app store for AI software. + AI needs to face up to its invisible-worker problem. Millions of people are paid a pittance to make AI seem human. ![]() If you haven’t already, subscribe to make sure you don’t miss out on future stories-subscriptions start from just $80 a year.Ģ Building AI is seriously laborious work This story is from our forthcoming print issue, which is all about accessibility. It’s a depressingly slow pace of development for such an essential human function. Today, there are only around half a dozen apps, each retailing for $200 to $300, that ask users to select from menus of crudely drawn icons to produce text and synthesized speech. After the iPad’s release, the flood of new, easy-to-use augmentative and alternative communication apps that users were in desperate need of never came. What for most people was basically a more convenient form factor was something far more consequential for non-speakers: a life-changing revolution in access to a portable, powerful communication device for just a few hundred dollars.īut a piece of hardware, however impressively designed and engineered, is only as valuable as what a person can do with it. ![]() On April 3, 2010, Steve Jobs debuted the iPad. ![]()
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