AI wasn't born out of nothing in the 21st century. It grew from a number of roots. Quipu is a method for keeping and passing information used by the Inca people in ancient times. Quipu uses nodes of different colors and materials. Sometimes there can be hundreds of nodes that were tied in different ways and at different heights to express differences in meaning.

The dynamic design duo of Karen Ann Donnachie and Andy Simionato are set to receive the Tokyo Type Directors Club award for their AI reading machine project – a machine that essentially transforms books into short Haikus accompanied by related images. It does this by using computer vision and optical character recognition to'read' books. Then with machine learning and natural language processing, it selects a poetic combination of words while erasing the rest to form an artsy-looking Haiku. While doing this, the reading machine also using Google to search up images that relate to said words. Donnachie and Simionato have released a series of books that we know and love with a slight twist.

Jonathan Mosen, who has been blind since birth, spent his evening snapping photos of packages in the mail, his son's school report and labels on bottles in the fridge. In seconds, he was listening to audio of the printed words the camera captured, courtesy of a new app on his Apple Inc iPhone. "I couldn't believe how accurate it was," said Mosen, an assistive technology consultant from New Zealand. The new app that allows blind people to listen to an audio readback of printed text is receiving rave reviews after its first day of availability and is being heralded as a life-changer by many people. Blind people say the KNFB Reader app will enable a new level of engagement in everyday life, from reading menus in restaurants to browsing handouts in the classroom.

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