13:15:19 RRSAgent has joined #rqtf 13:15:23 logging to https://www.w3.org/2023/02/08-rqtf-irc 13:15:23 RRSAgent, make logs public 13:15:24 Zakim has joined #rqtf 13:15:24 Meeting: Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group Teleconference 13:15:24 Date: 08 February 2023 13:15:30 chair: jasonjgw 13:15:32 present+ 13:15:34 scribe+ 13:15:39 agenda+ Artificial intelligence and people with disabilities. 13:15:39 agenda+ Miscellaneous topics. 13:53:36 janina has joined #rqtf 13:53:39 agenda? 13:53:55 present+ 13:53:59 zakim, who's here? 13:53:59 Present: jasonjgw, janina 13:54:01 On IRC I see janina, Zakim, RRSAgent, kirkwood, MichaelC, alastairc, Rachael, jasonjgw, trackbot 13:58:58 JPaton_ has joined #rqtf 14:00:55 Roy has joined #rqtf 14:00:57 present+ 14:01:00 zakim, next item 14:01:00 agendum 1 -- Artificial intelligence and people with disabilities. -- taken up [from jasonjgw] 14:01:12 LeticiaPereira has joined #rqtf 14:01:41 scribe+ 14:02:21 scott_h has joined #rqtf 14:02:22 SteveNoble has joined #rqtf 14:02:30 present+ 14:03:17 present+ 14:03:17 present+ 14:03:17 jasonjgw: introduces topic and our presenter, Lionel 14:03:54 present+ 14:04:46 matatk has joined #rqtf 14:08:31 janina: Notes that OpenAI is now to be part of Microsoft Bing according to overnight news releases; It was mainstream news this morning in DC 14:10:45 Lionel: Provides a few definitions and notes the pervasiveness of A-I in everyone's day 14:13:30 Lionel: Discusses use in labeling vis a vis common labels in our environments; harms, identification of items, etc. 14:16:58 lionel: Reviews the bitcom taxonomy of A-I/ML; noting there's no overall taxanomic consensus 14:20:19 q+ 14:26:28 lionel: Reviews his company approach in web content and notes how IOS has now incorporated some similar ML procedures for a11y 14:32:33 lionel: Shows OpenAI generated code examples 14:33:00 q+ 14:33:08 lionel: And now an example of an "Accessible Summary" 14:36:49 q? 14:37:07 great presentation Lionel, thank ou 14:37:44 Joshue108 has joined #rqtf 14:38:59 Raja has joined #rqtf 14:39:20 Joshue10_ has joined #rqtf 14:39:51 ack jan 14:40:00 present+ 14:40:09 present+ 14:40:30 q+ 14:40:36 janina: Asks whether Lionel recalls some gap related questions ... 14:40:48 Lionel_Wolberger has joined #RQTF 14:40:50 lionel: were equity related, but not finding right now ... 14:40:51 present+ 14:40:57 janina: let's not digress for now 14:42:06 jasonjgw: asks about risks when a-i is asked to close a11y gaps; how to think about relationship between users and content creators? 14:42:46 q? 14:42:58 ack jas 14:44:16 lionel: notes traditional buckets of mainstream vs. AT; notes too much opportunity for problems, but also overwhelmingly helpful 14:44:47 Lionel_Wolberger: notes speech reco, and TTS is now essentially free; so an example of benefit that's now just generally available 14:45:23 Lionel_Wolberger: We should look at failure modes and assess how disasterous the failures are; we could get better at assessing low vs high cost failures 14:45:52 ack raj 14:46:09 Raja: q from legal perspective 14:46:29 Raja: in communications there's push for a-i to substitute for human mediated access in the U.S. 14:47:10 Raja: sometimes a reasonable accomodation might be OK with ASR; but there are breakdowns, so in certain situations it would not function as a reasonable accomodation 14:47:46 Lionel_Wolberger: agrees there's much to discuss there 14:48:07 Raja: asking actually in general, e.g. emergency; 14:48:27 Raja: concerned about accountability 14:49:03 Lionel_Wolberger: have seen this addressed in criminal assessments; 14:49:15 Lionel_Wolberger: would need at least a warning 14:49:39 Lionel_Wolberger: believe it's positive that sentencing and parole support are aware that a-i does indeed skew due to dataset 14:50:14 Raja: agrees 14:50:32 q? 14:50:35 q+ 14:50:55 Raja: asks for slide sharing? 14:51:11 Lionel_Wolberger: Yes, the Zero Project will be public, and I will share what I've presented here 14:55:21 janina: asks benefit of identifying topic area, e.g. a Dewey Decimal kind of topic identification 14:56:18 lionel: shares an ibm fact sheet that asks to have dataset contents identified 14:56:31 Lionel_Wolberger: i.e. what were you trained for? 14:56:48 Lionel_Wolberger: ex. mortgage evaluator 14:58:13 Lionel_Wolberger: not finding that info in a google? now looking at microsoft responsible ai -- in azure cloud has a dashboard with explainer 14:58:47 q? 14:58:49 Lionel_Wolberger: sometimes the corporate work forgets what it has done! 14:58:54 Lionel_Wolberger: not trivial 14:59:25 very interesting, good presentation Lionel! 14:59:33 janina has left #rqtf 15:00:41 zakim, bye 15:00:41 leaving. As of this point the attendees have been jasonjgw, janina, MichaelC, SteveNoble, scott_h, LeticiaPereira, Roy, matatk, Joshue108_, Lionel_Wolberger 15:00:41 Zakim has left #rqtf 15:00:44 Lionel thanks everyone for their generous listening. 15:00:48 rrsagent, make minutes 15:00:49 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2023/02/08-rqtf-minutes.html jasonjgw