Google Photos will now automatically recognize pics of your pets
Google knows that your phone holds untold gigabytes of snapshots of your favorite animal friends. So the search giant is making it even easier to group those pics all together.
The algorithm behind Google Photos will now be able to recognize your Very Good dogs and cats automatically, and will group the reams of photos you've taken of them just like it does with pics of people. Google announced the new functionality in a blog post, which is alone worth a read for the sheer number of paw puns pulled off in five short paragraphs.
You'll also be able to assign a label to each grouping of pet photos, so when you're in need of an Instagram-worthy pupper shot, you can just search your photos by your dog's name.
Google claims you'll be able search your photos by breed, too, but the company acknowledged to BuzzFeed that the algorithm could have trouble differentiating between multiple animals within that parameter. You'll also be able to search using 🐶 and 🐱 emoji through all of your animal images, whether they're actually your own, or just the funny cat pics you download from the internet.
The new search and organization features are only available for dogs and cats, though. If you love your horse or iguana or massive rideable python, you're sadly out of luck. You'll have to organize those pics yourself.
Topics Animals Artificial Intelligence Google
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