Within days of launch of OpenAI’s GPT-4 language mannequin, Be My Eyes, a free cell app that connects people who’re blind or have low-vision, with sighted individuals, has built-in the know-how into its current app to develop its ‘Virtual Volunteer’ digital assistant.
A preview of the interface of Be My Eyes’ ‘Virtual Volunteer’ (bemyeyes.com)
“This tool will push us further toward achieving our goal to improve accessibility, usability, and access to information globally, and aligns us with OpenAI’s stated principles on developing safe and responsible AI,” Be My Eyes mentioned in a assertion.
OpenAI, too, issued a launch introducing Virtual Volunteer.
What is Virtual Volunteer?
(1.) According to Be My Eyes, the GPT-4 powered Virtual Volunteer makes use of the language mannequin’s dynamic image-to-text generator function. When a picture is distributed, it can use the generator function to reply any query about that image, and also will present prompt digital help for numerous duties.
(2.) Giving an instance of the digital assistant’s skill, the assertion additionally claimed that if an image despatched is of the within of a fridge, it won’t solely appropriately determine what all substances are contained in the fridge, but in addition inform what could be ready with these substances.
(3.) The sighted volunteer expertise, nonetheless, shouldn’t be going anyplace. Therefore, if the software, which is able to come free of charge, is unable to reply a query, it can mechanically give customers the choice to be linked to a sighted particular person.
(4.) On the provision entrance, Be My Eyes is presently holding beta testing of the service with a small subset of customers. Over the following few weeks, this group of testers can be expanded, adopted by a broad launch of Virtual Volunteer within the coming months.
(5.) The firm additional mentioned it welcomes suggestions to fine-tune this new software. The precedence, it mentioned, is (consumer) security.
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