Role of Artificial Intelligence for Disabled Persons

All of us often believe that Artificial Intelligence always acts for abstract and advanced idea which we only see in hollywood films with fancy robots and robotic arms. Although, AI is very much connected with each of us and reaching various area and helping the people including people with some disabilities also. We have also realised in recent times how AI is helping many people with disability like Visually impairment. The use of AI is not just limited to one or two type of disability. For example the people who cannot walk can control everything with their personal voice assistant like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Now, we will analyse what is AI and how these innovations regarding accessibility.

Artificial Intelligence is the study of science that makes intelligent machines that are efficient enough to perform tasks that normal humans can do in daily life. There are various technology solutions that introduced by AI. One of the technology solution among these is Machine learning. There are various use cases of machine learning algorithms. For eg. Google uses machine learning algorithms based on the data they get from user search history and the user’s activity so that everyone can have personalised suggestions in their feed.

Approximately four billion people are using Google Search engine. Hence AI is recognised as social good. Besides all these, one major factor is that anyone have access to the service including the people with any kind of disability. Particularly AI have got popularity in recent times because of it’s wide accessibility i.e anyone can use it. Therefore AI can remove accessibility hurdles in many ways. Some of them are:

AI has immense impact on disabled people in day to day lives. Now for the people with mental health problem can now easily understand the world around him all thanks to text summarisation which make it possible. AI helps people to step up into the world where their problems are taken into consideration. AI have developed sense of equality among everyone whether the person is disabled or not.

Other Benefits

We have seen some of the benefits that AI gives to the disabled people. But there are various other benefits as well. Some of them are:

Communicating with people and being connected

Depending on the type of disability that person is having communication is a challenging task. The same is also true for the stay in connection with people across the globe. There are lot of applications that uses AI to benefit accessibility. Some of these are:

For visually impaired people

For deaf or lack of hearing people

For Physically disabled Person

AI enhanced lives of disabled people everywhere, even at their own home. As we have already mention about Siri/Google assistant but at homes we can be equipped with smart speakers like Amazon Echo, Google home, so that people having limited movement in their home can give commands by voice like “switch off the lights”. So, any home item can be linked with the smart speakers like echo dot and google home which reduce pressure on physically challenged people. And one can command their voice assistants at home which made possible through IFTTT. It links different apps together with voice assistants like Amazon echo dot and Google Home.

The Artificial Intelligence overall helps in gaining equality factor among the disabled person so that they didn’t felt left behind from the world. AI helps in reducing mental health and make them feel comfortable.

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