Facebook
on Monday started using artificial intelligence to aid blind people with visual
deficiencies, enjoy photos posted on Facebook.
Facebook
presented machine learning technology skilled to identify objects in pictures
and then describe photos audibly.
“As
Facebook converts a progressively visual experience, we hope our new automatic
alternative text technology will help the blind community experience Facebook
the same way others enjoy it,” said accessibility specialist Matt King.
The
feature was being verified on mobile devices motorized by Apple iOS software
and which have screen readers set to English.
Facebook
planned to expand the capability to devices with other kinds of operating
systems and add more languages, according to King, who lost his vision as a US
college student studying electrical engineering. The technology works across
Facebook’s family of applications and is based on a “neural network” taught to identify
things in pictures using millions of examples.
“While this
technology is still nascent, tapping its current capabilities to describe
photos is a huge step toward providing our visually impaired community the same
welfares and delight that everyone else gets from photos,” King said.
The
Silicon Valley-based social network said that it was moving slowly with the
feature to avoid possibly aggressive or awkward blunders when it comes to
automatically describing what is in pictures.
Words
used in descriptions included those related to transportation, outdoors
settings, sports, food, and public’s appearances.
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