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Be My AI: When innovation and privacy clash
Sep 26, 2023
An AI-powered tool for blind people faced privacy concerns. Spotify's boss, Daniel Ek, discusses AI in music making. Marc Cieslak explores neural interface technology.
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- The Be My AI app, powered by AI technology, assists blind and partially sighted individuals by providing descriptions of the world, but privacy concerns have arisen due to the app capturing people's faces.
- Spotify aims to expose more music to a wider audience and create opportunities for artists, recognizing the challenges of the music industry and the difficulty of earning a substantial income solely from the platform.
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Be My AI: AI-powered app for blind and visually impaired
Be My AI is an app that uses AI-powered technology, specifically an artificial intelligence system called GPT4, to describe the world for blind and partially sighted individuals. It takes photographs captured by a phone camera and uses a language model to provide the best description it can from the internet. This eliminates the need for a sighted volunteer to assist with basic tasks like identifying objects, reading instructions, or finding nearby locations. However, concerns about privacy have been raised, especially regarding the app capturing people's faces. The company behind Be My AI acknowledges the importance of privacy issues and is working on addressing them during the testing phase of the app.
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