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3 min readMar 24, 2023

Emerging Tech Roundup — March 24

The Quantious team’s top picks for timely trending news in the tech world.

This week in tech: Be My Eyes Leverages OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Improve Accessibility, Google Opens Early Access to Bard, Italian Electric Motorcycle Maker Integrates Tech into Aviation, Microsoft’s DALL-E Expands AI Image Generation to Bing and Edge, NVIDIA and Medtronic Build AI-Enhanced Endoscopy Tool, Scientists Control Quantum Light For First Time, and Adobe Enters Generative AI with Firefly.

Be My Eyes Announces New Tool Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Improve Accessibility for People Who are Blind or Have Low-Vision

(Business Wire, March 14)

Be My Eyes, a mobile app designed to provide assistance to visually impaired people, has announced the first digital virtual assistant powered by OpenAI. Users can send images through the app to an AI-powered Virtual Volunteer in order to receive instant assistance for a variety of tasks. The feature aims to better support the blind and low-vision community, while also offering a new way for businesses to better prioritize accessibility.

Google Opens Early Access to Bard, its AI Chatbot

(Tech Crunch, March 21)

Google has just announced the release of its ChatGPT competitor, dubbed Bard. Bard, still in its early stages, allows users to collaborate with generative AI. The company is starting with a limited public rollout, and users in both the U.K. and the U.S. can join a waitlist via the Bard webpage. Like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing chatbot, Bard is based on a large language model and is able to respond and interact with its users.

Italian Electric Motorcycle Maker to Integrate its Tech into Aviation

(Interesting Engineering, March 21)

Italian electric motorcycle manufacturer Engica is working to integrate its EV technology package into both airplanes and seaplanes. The company has partnered with two aviation companies, Phenix Air Corp. and Pure Flight, to evaluate the performances and to conduct tests. This move is part of the company’s “Energica Inside” program, which uses the company’s powertrain solutions to assist and benefit other manufacturers of light EVs.

Microsoft Brings DALL-E’s AI Image Generation to Bing and Edge

(Engadget, March 21)

Microsoft announced a new aspect to build upon Bing AI chat. The company now has a Bing Image Creator preview, which adds OpenAI’s DALL-E AI image generation tool to both the user’s Bing search and the sidebar in their Edge browser. The DALL-E tool comes just as Adobe shares plans to add generative AI to Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro.

NVIDIA and Medtronic are Building an AI-Enhanced Endoscopy Tool

(Engadget, March 21)

NVIDIA is working together with Medtronic to fight cancer using advanced AI technology. The two companies are building AI into the GI Genius endoscopy tool and leveraging NVIDIA’s IGX hardware, along with Holoscan’s medical platform. The combination will provide doctors with AI-enhanced diagnostic images. It is expected to arrive later this year, helping detect the polyps that can lead to colorectal cancer.

Scientists ‘Control’ Quantum Light For the First Time, Achieving Landmark

(Interesting Engineering, March 21)

Scientists have effectively shown that they can control and distinguish tiny quantities of interacting photons. This first step towards harnessing quantum light for practical use could potentially advance quantum computing and medical imaging. The study announced this experiment has marked a significant turning point in quantum technology.

With Firefly, Adobe Gets Into the Generative AI Game