AI Could Change How Blind People See the World | WIRED

Assistive technology services are integrating OpenAI's GPT-4, using artificial intelligence to help describe objects and people. Ask Envision, an AI assistant that uses OpenAI’s GPT-4, 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...

Assistive technology services are integrating OpenAI's GPT-4, using artificial intelligence to help describe objects and people. Ask Envision, an AI assistant that uses OpenAI’s GPT-4, 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...