Google has always been looking for ways to spread AI to many phones without major changes, and its recent move to bring AI updates to Lens is a part of that.
In its recent blog, Google announced that Lens, the visual search engine that uses images to identify objects, will now be able to conduct searches with videos. You can take a video of plants and ask the tool to identify their name.
The blog said that when you put in a video query, “Our systems will make sense of the video and your question together to produce an AI Overview, along with helpful resources from across the web.”
The recent updates also revealed that Lens is now able to ask questions with voice when doing a photo search. Users can just point at an object and ask the AI to describe that.
Lens’ shopping tool, which identifies the product based on a picture that the user provides, is also updated. Now the result pages will also feature detailed information on reviews and prices across several retailers.
One of the major issues with shopping via Lens that’s been bothering users for ages is its low-quality results that surface unknown stores and random links. So, the new update might fix these issues.
These updates will be available on all phones running Google Lens on iOS and Android, amounting to hundreds of millions of handsets. These updates will make generative AI more accessible without necessarily bringing new hardware.
It is expected that the new features in the Google Lens will follow soon. So, whether you like AI updates on your device or not, this integration is going to be inevitable.