AiVi — See & Speak is moving into a real project
An AI visual interpreter you can hold a real conversation with about whatever your camera is pointing at. Now a shipping project.
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The living feed of the lab.
Project releases, articles, new tech being explored, and ideas moving into motion — in reverse-chronological order.
Idea in motion Project update TypeRight — Type Together — release
A gamified educational app that teaches typing skills to users of all abilities, using audio and video to create an engaging, accessible learning experience for diverse learners.
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Project update Kaidence — Speak Genius — release
An AI-powered augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app that predicts and speaks text. It learns user patterns to predict what someone wants to say, with a text-only mode and a picture mode that pairs images with words to support diverse communication styles.
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Project update AiVi — See & Speak — release
An AI visual interpreter that discusses what your camera sees in real time. Point your camera at anything and have a live, voice-driven conversation about it, with customizable AI agents, spatial audio voice commands, and task-specific focus modes. Also available as a downloadable Mac app.
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Article What should an AI vision assistant remember?
Thinking out loud about the difference between memory, context, and surveillance in camera-based assistants.
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Article Technology should create choices, not assumptions
Notes on the difference between products that anticipate a person and products that decide for them.
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Article Why independence is not the same as doing everything alone
A short piece on the difference between self-sufficiency and self-direction, and why the distinction matters for how we design tools.
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Article Open Independence Begins Here
A short introduction to what Open Independence is, why it is anonymous, and how the work will unfold in public.
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