In the early days of smartphones, extremely powerful cameras were built into users' pockets, making it easy to take photos of anything at any time. result? Your smartphone photo album contains tens of thousands of images, making it nearly impossible to find the one you want. Google's new AI capabilities offer a solution.
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On Tuesday, the company announced a new “Ask Photos” feature for Google Photos at its annual developer conference, Google I/O. Powered by Gemini AI, this feature allows users to ask a chatbot to find a photo for them instead of going through thousands of photos themselves.
For example, Google says that instead of typing the keyword “license plate” and scrolling through all the photos, users can now ask “What's my license plate number?” Gemini uses the context to identify which car belongs to the user and pulls the number on the user's behalf.
In another example, a user who wants to track their daughter's progress as a swimmer over time can ask Google Photos to do so, and Gemini will automatically organize the highlights.
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Google has shared that this feature will roll out to Google Photo users later this summer, with more features to come. This feature isn't available yet, but if you're interested in it, you can prepare ahead of time by backing up all your photos to Google Photos.