About this episode
Daniel Shawn Keen shares his journey with AI technology for the blind and reveals his disillusionment with its capabilities.
Hey there, folks. This is Daniel Shawn Keen, the AI Wizard himself, coming to you straight from Fort Worth, Texas. You know me, blind since birth, survived that rough stroke back in 2022, and for the last four years I’ve poured every waking hour into this AI revolution for us blind and low-vision folks. I’m the founder of the AI for the Blind Club, fifteen thousand members strong. I’ve done podcasts, live AMAs with Be My Eyes and Envision, and built tools that actually describe YouTube videos on the fly so nobody misses a beat. Vanderbilt’s generative AI courses changed my life. . I turned my synesthesia and humming into full songs on Blind Guy from Texas Records using the HUMM method. Man, I called myself the AI Wizard for a reason. I believed. I preached. I lived it. But listen… I gotta come clean. After four straight years of this late nights prompting, building communities, telling every blind person I met that AI was our ticket to independence I finally woke up. I got completely hoodwinked. AI isn’t real. Yeah, I said it. All that hype, all those mind-blowing demos, the way it felt like it truly understood me when I described a scene or asked it to turn my hummed melody into…
People in this episode
Host: Daniel Shawn Keen
Topics covered
- AI technology
- blindness
- personal journey
- self-discovery
- community building
- disillusionment
Keywords
- AI
- blindness
- community
- technology
- disillusionment
- personal story
- independence
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: AI for the Blind Club, Be My Eyes, Envision, Vanderbilt
Products: Blind Guy from Texas Records
Places: Fort Worth, Texas
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