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>I'm much more excited to have help finding that goofy picture of my cat by describing what I remember, so I can share it with a friend, than I am to have some

>I'm much more excited to have help finding that goofy picture of my cat by describing what I remember, so I can share it with a friend, than I am to have some chatbot dialog about entry-level Python with a hallucinating parlor trick. Hasn't Google been doing this forever? I can search random things in my photos (like pictures of an old car I owned).

swatcoder 2y ago
For a bit, and to a degree, yes. Last-decade image recognition and tagging teased what might be possible and is genuinely useful. The new LLM-ish tools promise that users can be more vague and casual in what language they use and more elaborate in how specific they mean to be; and that the queries (and operations) can span more diverse data sources.
- radlad 2y ago
  Are there examples of new tools based on recent AI advancements that perform better than Google Photos image recognition?
  - conradev 2y ago
    Google highlighted the delta that recent advancements brought to their products: https://blog.google/products/photos/ask-photos-google-io-2024/ https://blog.google/products/photos/ask-photos-google-io-202...
    - gumby271 2y ago
      Wow they announced this back in May and it's still not available for me.
  - gsich 2y ago
    Or better than Picasa almost 10 years ago.
lancesells 2y ago
iOS has been doing this for a bit too. I don't use it enough to really know how good it is but I can definitely look for cats or people I know. Haven't used Apple Intelligence yet so maybe that's better as well?
- reportingsjr 2y ago
  Google photos is way, way, way better than apple photos at this. It’s not even a competition. I have my sister’s dogs named in my google photos library. Every time I a take a picture of either dog, they are automatically tagged and added to a shared album I set up for my sister. I have nieces and nephews with photos from newborn age to 10+ years old, and it has managed to organize them across their growth and ages. It’s incredible. I can search for “<niece name> <vacation area>” and get every photo of her on a certain vacation to make a family scrap book. Apple photos search and tagging is pitiful in comparison.
  - WOTERMEON 2y ago
    But one of the two you can have on your device and do not have to pay rent

swatcoder 2y ago

For a bit, and to a degree, yes. Last-decade image recognition and tagging teased what might be possible and is genuinely useful. The new LLM-ish tools promise that users can be more vague and casual in what language they use and more elaborate in how specific they mean to be; and that the queries (and operations) can span more diverse data sources.

radlad 2y ago
Are there examples of new tools based on recent AI advancements that perform better than Google Photos image recognition?
- conradev 2y ago
  Google highlighted the delta that recent advancements brought to their products: https://blog.google/products/photos/ask-photos-google-io-2024/ https://blog.google/products/photos/ask-photos-google-io-202...
  - gumby271 2y ago
    Wow they announced this back in May and it's still not available for me.
- gsich 2y ago
  Or better than Picasa almost 10 years ago.

lancesells 2y ago

iOS has been doing this for a bit too. I don't use it enough to really know how good it is but I can definitely look for cats or people I know. Haven't used Apple Intelligence yet so maybe that's better as well?

reportingsjr 2y ago
Google photos is way, way, way better than apple photos at this. It’s not even a competition. I have my sister’s dogs named in my google photos library. Every time I a take a picture of either dog, they are automatically tagged and added to a shared album I set up for my sister. I have nieces and nephews with photos from newborn age to 10+ years old, and it has managed to organize them across their growth and ages. It’s incredible. I can search for “<niece name> <vacation area>” and get every photo of her on a certain vacation to make a family scrap book. Apple photos search and tagging is pitiful in comparison.
- WOTERMEON 2y ago
  But one of the two you can have on your device and do not have to pay rent