Be My Eyes Announces New Tool Powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 to Improve
Accessibility for People Who are Blind or Have Low-Vision
Virtual Volunteer™ is the first-ever AI-powered digital visual assistant
powered by OpenAI's new GPT-4 language model
Be My Eyes, the mobile app that allows anyone to assist visually
impaired people through live video calls, today announced Virtual
Volunteer™, the first-ever digital visual assistant powered by OpenAI's
new GPT-4 language model.
The new tool from Be My Eyes integrates OpenAI's latest generative AI
technology, with the goal of providing an unprecedented level of
accessibility and power to the 253 million people who are blind or have
low vision globally.
"We are entering the next wave of innovation for accessibility
technology powered by AI. This new Be My Eyes feature will be
transformative in providing people who are blind or have low vision with
powerful tools to better navigate physical environments, address
everyday needs, and gain more independence," said Mike Buckley, CEO of
Be My Eyes. "We are thrilled to work with OpenAI to further our mission
of improving accessibility for the 253 million people who are blind or
have low-vision, with safe and accessible applications of generative AI."
The Virtual Volunteer feature will be integrated into the existing app
and contains a dynamic new image-to-text generator powered by GPT-4.
Users can send images via the app to an AI-powered Virtual Volunteer,
which will answer any question about that image and provide
instantaneous, conversational visual assistance for a wide variety of
tasks.
What sets the Virtual Volunteer tool apart from other image-to-text
technology available today is the context it provides, with highly
nuanced explanations and conversational abilities not yet seen in the
digital assistant field. For example, if a user sends a picture of the
inside of their refrigerator, the Virtual Volunteer will not only be
able to correctly identify the items within, but also extrapolate and
analyze what can be prepared with those ingredients. The tool can also
then offer a number of recipes for those ingredients and send a
step-by-step guide to prepare them.
This new feature promises to not only better support the blind and
low-vision community through the Be My Eyes app, but it will also offer
a way for businesses to better serve their customers by prioritizing
accessibility. Be My Eyes plans to begin beta testing this with
corporate customers in the coming weeks, and to make it broadly
available later this year as part of the company's Accessible CX™ offering.
Since its founding in 2015, Be My Eyes has worked to connect its 6.3
million volunteers to users to assist them with everyday tasks, and the
company's mission is to make the world more accessible for people who
are blind or have low vision.
In the near future, Be My Eyes plans to apply this technology to provide
people with powerful tools and capabilities to enrich their virtual
assistant experience in complex ways – for example, navigating a train
system in an unfamiliar place, traveling in a foreign country where
translation support is needed, browsing websites and social media
platforms, online shopping, and a host of other scenarios to be
discovered in testing.
People who are blind or have low vision can register for the wait list
in the iOS app. Just like the existing volunteer service, this tool is
free for all blind and low-vision community members using the Be My Eyes
app.
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