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28/11/2017

Hallucinations, AI Apps

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, Hallucinations, AI Apps

Judith Potts talks about Charles Bonnet syndrome and Jackie Brown on a range of AI apps.

Judith Potts, founder of a support group for Charles Bonnet Syndrome, talks about the condition. Plus Jackie Brown, BCAB Chair, explains a range of AI apps and their significance.

When they lose their sight, many people start to suffer from visual hallucinations. These can be very distressing and many people suffer in silence as they fear it is the onset of mental illness. Doctors are often unaware that hallucinations are common in sight loss and the experience is called Charles Bonnet Syndrome - named after the Swiss naturalist who first described the condition in 1760. Judith Potts has founded of a new support group for Charles Bonnet Syndrome sufferers. Esme's Umbrella is named after Judith's mother and was suffered from CBS. Esme's Umbrella offers help and support for sufferers and their families. Judith has successfully lobbied the Royal College of Ophthalmologists who have agreed to agree to inform their patients about the condition.
Jackie Brown is the new chair of British Computer Association of the Blind, she talks to Peter White about a range of free Artificial Intelligence (AI) apps and their significance for blind people. 
BBC Washington Correspondent Gary O'Donoghue has been using the new Seeing AI app and is enthusiastic about its potential for VI people..
Richard Pryor is a retired social worker who fears that VI people, like him, who are not smart phone users risk being left behind as yjr technology develops. 

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Cheryl Gabriel.

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