Wednesday, November 20, 2024

MEET THE WHEELCHAIR USER MAKING GOOGLE MAPS MORE ACCESSIBLE

SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN


To make sure the data that users generate is accurate, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn is reaching back into his AI tool bag.

“AI can be really helpful and in ways that you wouldn’t maybe expect around accessibility, but not always in a gee-whiz, flashy technology way,” he says.

“For instance, we use machine learning to resolve ambiguities based on data.

Like, if there’s a bar where users gave four ‘yeses’ saying it’s accessible, one ‘no,’ but the merchant reports ‘yes,’ what should we do? In order to referee these things in a principled way, we use [machine learning] to determine the probability based on past examples, and if the next three votes are all ‘yes’ — mark it accessible.”

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