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TechMates – Navigating The AI Landscape

TechMates – Navigating The AI Landscape

Welcome to the RSBC Unseen podcast focusing on AI.

On this episode, Alex and Juliette dive into the pros and cons of AI apps for blind users. They talk about different apps and how they’re integrating them in their daily lives. They also chat about how AI could potentially improve the lives of blind and partially sighted in the near future.

Don’t forget to let us know your thoughts by getting in touch at youth.forum@rsbc.org.uk.

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Transcript

Alex  0:13

Hello, everyone, welcome back to the podcast. You might remember my voice. It’s been such a long time since I recorded a podcast. Yes, this one is going to be a tech podcast. It’s going to be called Tech Mates, which is a new podcast. And the reason why it’s called Tech mates? Well, my guess Juliette will explain what it means. Hi, Juliette.

Juliette  0:37

Hi, I’m so happy to be here! So it’s called Tech Mates because Alex and I are mates and we like to talk about tech. We’ve been friends for a while and now I work at RSBC, so we thought let’s jump on and do a tech podcast together.

Alex  0:54

One important question. Are you any good at chess?

Juliette  0:58

No, no.

Alex   0:59

Okay. We just chose the name because it sounded okay.

Juliette  1:04

Yeah, that is how I came up with it. I was like, What rhymes with mates and tech? And I was like, oh, checkmate, Tech Mates! And no, I don’t play chess, at all, so, you know.

Alex  1:14

Yeah, that’s the history of the name, it’s not that deep. Such a smart one. It took us ages to come up with a name and I’m quite proud of it.

Juliette 1:25

We even tried asking chat GPT for names and it was not helpful to be honest.

Alex  1:31

Yeah. What was the suggestion like from the AI?

Juliette  1:35

Oh my God, they were so bland. They’ve just fallen out my head. I think wasn’t there that weird one Like “Seeing Pioneers”? I was like, that was a lot. That was a lot.

Alex   1:46

Yes, and this episode – our first episode’s going to be about AI, because AI is like the new innovation. And it’s been around for almost a year now. I think it came out in November, chat GPT anyways, of last year. So it’s been a year. So it’s a good time to just talk about it and talk about how it has improved over the year and where it’s going in the future; chat GPT and  ‘Be My AI’. It’s really hard to say actually.

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