Be My Eyes, the accessibility app for mobile devices that places blind and low-vision folks on a reside video name with a sighted information, will assist Microsoft prepare its AI. Be My Eyes will present anonymized video knowledge to enhance scene understanding in Microsoft’s accessibility-focused AI fashions.
The info units Be My Eyes offers Microsoft will embrace “distinctive objects, lighting and framing that realistically represents the lived expertise of the blind and low imaginative and prescient neighborhood.” The objective is to make Microsoft’s AI extra inclusive for folks with imaginative and prescient disabilities.
The businesses say all private data has been scrubbed from the metadata. The offered knowledge received’t be used for promoting or any goal aside from coaching Microsoft’s AI fashions.
Though that is Be My Eyes’ first such knowledge partnership, it’s labored with Microsoft earlier than by incorporating its Be My AI instrument into Microsoft’s Incapacity Reply Desk. As its title suggests, Be My AI is the corporate’s GPT-4-powered spin on an help product. In that case, it helps folks with imaginative and prescient disabilities navigate Workplace, Home windows and Xbox.
Be My Eyes additionally struck a deal with Hilton earlier this month. In that case, devoted resort employees assist blind and low-vision lodgers do issues like alter their thermostats, make espresso and lift or decrease their blinds. A earlier 2023 partnership between the 2 firms helped prepare the Be My AI mannequin.
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