Wow, this really adds an amazing perspective to the entire (frequently touted) concept of Visual Language Models somehow "saving" blind people from their old life; In the past, a blind person desperately needed caretakers, otherwise the blind person will bumble around their home, end up mistaking the sink for the toilet, accidentally turn on their stove thinking it's the thermostat, until they died after mistaking bleach for milk and cat litter for cereal....

BUT NOW... THE FUTURE IS HERE.... an all-knowing god-like cell phone can tell these poor miserable individuals what the objects in their own homes are! No more tragic Mr. Magoo-ian accidents!

But thank you for posting this; It certainly enlightened me! I'll admit, all these AI solutions