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Microsoft recruits accessibility app to make its AI more useful to blind and low-vision users

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Be My Eyes will provide anonymized video data to help Microsoft train its AI .

The goal is to make Microsoft ’s AI more inclusive for people with vision disabilities.

The data will include “unique objects, lighting and framing that realistically represents the lived experience of the blind and low vision community” The companies say all personal info has been scrubbed from the metadata.

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