AI Could Change How Blind People See the World

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Assistive technology services are integrating OpenAI's GPT-4, using artificial intelligence to help describe objects and people.

birthday, Chela Robles and her family made a trek to One House, her favorite bakery in Benicia, California, for a brisket sandwich and brownies. On the car ride home, she tapped a small touchscreen on her temple and asked for a description of the world outside. “A cloudy sky,” the response came back through her Google Glass.

Robles has tried services that connect her to sighted people for help in the past. But in April, she signed up for a trial with Ask Envision, an AI assistant that uses, a multimodal model that can take in images and text and output conversational responses. The system is one of several assistance products for visually impaired people to begin integrating language models, promising to give users far more visual details about the world around them—and much more independence.

Be My Eyes, a 12-year-old app that helps users identify objects around them, adopted GPT-4 in March. Microsoft—which is a major investor in OpenAI—has begun integration testing of GPT-4 for its SeeingAI service, which offers similar functions, according to Microsoft responsible AI lead Sarah Bird. Another Ask Envision early tester, Richard Beardsley, says he typically uses the service to do things like find contact information on a bill or read ingredients lists on boxes of food. Having a hands-free option through Google Glass means he can use it while holding his guide dog’s leash and a cane. “Before, you couldn’t jump to a specific part of the text,” he says. “Having this really makes life a lot easier because you can jump to exactly what you’re looking for.

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