Ep 4: Agent Saqib Shaikh - Seeing the world through AI (Featuring Agent David Olney)

When we look at a painting or gaze upon a movie scene, we gather the visual information on what objects are, why something may be moving, and what that might mean. For a machine, these inputs break down to 1s and 0s to make sense of this information through algorithms and patterns. Visual systems are incredibly complex, and replicating them for those without sight is a significant technological challenge. Agent Saqib Shaikh is a software engineer at Microsoft and project lead of Seeing AI, a mobile application that narrates the world around us. To address the capability of AI for visually impaired people, Agent Saqib, co-founder of Seeing AI joins Tim and guest host Agent David Olney to discover more about the program.

Learn more about Seeing AI here.

Agent David Olney is a blind academic at the University of Adelaide and a Human Performance Consultant. You can follow his work here.

This Podcast was Produced by Tim Whiffen of Whimsy Productions in Association with Art Intelligence Agency, the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, and Sia Furler Institute of the University of Adelaide.

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