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Google Photos Now Recognizes Your Pets (techcrunch.com)
Today, Google is introducing an easier way to aggregate your pet photos in its Photos app -- by allowing you to group all your pet's photos in one place, right beside the people Google Photos organized using facial recognition. TechCrunch reports: This is an improvement over typing in "dog," or another generalized term, because the app will now only group together photos of an individual pet together, instead of returning all photos you've captured with a "dog" in them. And like the face grouping feature, you can label the pet by name to more easily pull up their photos in the app, or create albums, movies or photo books using their pictures. In addition, Google Photos lets you type in an animal's breed to search for photos of pets, and it lets you search for photos using the dog and cat emojis. The company also earlier this year introduced a feature that would create a mini-movie starring your pet, but you can opt to make one yourself by manually selecting photos then choosing from a half-dozen tracks to accompany the movie, says Google.
Because Iâ(TM)m not uploading my goddamn photos to google (or Facebook, or Instagram).
I canâ(TM)t stop other people from uploading pictures of me, but I donâ(TM)t have to help them.
I had honestly grown skeptical of the no-strings-attached devotion the dogs were providing... after all, who could love me that unconditionally without some sort of downside?
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What would it be like to be an engineer who got tasked with coming up with this feature? What a soul-sucking thing to have to do. Then you have to explain to friends and family what it is that you are working on. Maybe for an encore they can add a feature to recognize pet rocks.
Crap writing. Google doesn't recognize my pets. Google doesn't have pictures of my pets. Google doesn't know if I have pets.
I do not block ads. I do block third party scripts.
>. not uploading my goddamn photos to google (
That's what I was thinking, but I wouldn't mind having all the pics on my phone automatically organized by face recognition. Anybody know the best way to do this on Linux, locally? Obviously it wouldn't know WHO they are, just recognize "these two pics are the same person". 10 or 15 years ago I used some popular Linux program that did a pretty good job of putting similar pics together, but I'm sure today's options are much better.
Your girlfriend with a collar and leash....
It's not recognizing my pet rock.
and the next thing I know Google is sending me links like these
https://www.thespruce.com/prob...
And my black friends are Gorillas. And these people want to provide the AI for automated cars?
digiKam dot org has face recognition.
so convenience
doge approves
such search
pls no lolcats
Have gnu, will travel.
I couldn't remember the name of it, but I think it was digiKam I used many years ago. I bet it's really good now.
the food section.
Table-ized A.I.
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Your a moron. You have no brain, you are where grown ups speak about things you don't understand. fly fly away little mockingbird, fly fly
Picasa used to be able to do that. Don't know of there every existed a version for Linux or one that works in wine though
With all the serious problems that need to be solved in the world, Google is putting bright minds to work on this?
They probably use Google Photos on that snap camera too, meaning now you pay 250$ for auto 7 sec..
In choosing Don't Be Evil as it's famous motto (history will judge if they failed that test), Google neglected other, less obvious aspects. One that comes to mind right now is Don't Be Creepy; while less fraught with meaning, it's much easier to judge... and they're failing.
I think Shotwell does this too.
Get an copy of Picasa. Google dropped it awhile back. Worked pretty well. Not sure if there was a Linux version though.
My parents have a Boston Terrier that is stout, and now in her older age is even quite hefty.
We have a Boston Terrier that is basically a cat. She's a bit lanky and has completely different markings. Per Google they're the same dog.
I'll go ahead and share for reference. If storage were unlimited I would load up all my old photos too, but I would quickly overload my space. Too bad there's not a "pay once keep forever" option on space instead of a regular bill.
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"Hey Siri, show me pictures of schnauzers" is far more accurate that one would imagine.
And it gets even creepier
How good is it at telling two eclectus parrots of the same gender apart?
given the wide variety in looks this may take a good chunk of a DC to sort out
will a computer know that a "Taco Dog" and a Tibetan Mastiff are both Dogs??
how about a Siamese and a Maine Coon both being cats??
It seems to have some problems differentiating between Llamas, and incorrectly identifying coyotes.
Was this designed by city folk?
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