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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.
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?
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Oh sure, let's pretend having to work on a morally ambiguous program is the embarrassing equivalent of a guy who drives a truck from place to place cleaning Port-a-potties all day.
You realize he answers, "Truck driver" when people ask him what he does for a living, don't you, programmer?
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
It is likely using the same codebase that is used to recognize individual people and could likely be expanded to other interesting research like recognizing individual birds in the wild.
As far as the pet angle, there are plenty of people that enjoy this kind of work and this kind of work is sadly increasing with things like pet pedicures and pet massages and things even more bizarre. There is a ton of money to be made from people who feed their dogs better than half the world's human population.
>. 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 my black friends are Gorillas. And these people want to provide the AI for automated cars?
I read last week that pet toothpaste is a $2 billion a year industry in the U.S.
digiKam dot org has face recognition.
so convenience
doge approves
such search
pls no lolcats
Have gnu, will travel.
I couldn't remember the name of it, but I think it was digiKam I used many years ago. I bet it's really good now.
the food section.
Table-ized A.I.
As far as the pet angle, there are plenty of people that enjoy this kind of work and this kind of work is sadly increasing with things like pet pedicures and pet massages and things even more bizarre. .
Each to their own I guess.
I still marvel at my dog being able to log in to XBox Live through the Kinnect as I *painstakingly* set up an XBox One profile for her. You know, as a...errm...proof of concept...
With all the serious problems that need to be solved in the world, Google is putting bright minds to work on this?
They probably use Google Photos on that snap camera too, meaning now you pay 250$ for auto 7 sec..
I wouldn't put pet photos in the same category as pet massages. I have dogs - I like looking at and showing people pictures of my dogs (mostly to other dog owners). I wouldn't dream of getting them a pet massage, but I'd be quite happy to quickly sort through pictures of my two different labradors and my half-a-beagle.
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.
My old cat (may she rest in peace) downloaded Chrome for me one night and then opened about 80 empty tabs.
Okay, I may have just been drunk and didn't remember downloading Chrome but at the time I was still using Firefox.
The part about her opening 80 empty tabs is definitely true though - she was sleeping on the keyboard when I woke up.
The cat I have now actually has a twitter account.and to my amazement still has nearly 500 followers despite her complete failure to convince me to promote it online. She hasn't posted anything in months and nearly 500 might be bragging, but it is over 460 and only 2 or 3 of those are relatives who know she's my cat.
She actually has at least one corporate follower because in one picture you can see the brand of food she eats and they liked it and followed her.
It really is a mystery to me how she got any followers at all. Where do these people come from? And why are they following my cat on twitter?
And the cat is careful to remove any metadata from the images and even blur out anything that could possibly be used to personally identify her - well, except for her name which is kind of unique.
My current cat looks a lot like that cat who downloaded Chrome for me. I've even been tempted to upload old photos of that cat on my current cat's twitter feed to see if anyone would notice it wasn't the same cat. I wonder if Google could tell the difference. If I wasn't familiar with the photos in question even I might not be able to tell.
If you want to freak me out and prove how there is no such thing as privacy tweet to my cat and reference this slashdot post. Can you connect the dots? Somebody probably can. I actually just logged in to her twitter account using the same browser as I'm using here. But at least I'm content in thinking that only a few big corporations can connect me to my cat's twitter feed and not just anyone on the internet.
Now that I think about it, I've given up quite a few clues already.
* Cat has a unique name
* All images are scrubbed of metadata (unless she made a mistake of course)
* between 450-500 followers
* hasn't tweeted anything in months
* at least one picture shows a brand of cat food
* at least one picture has something blurred out
The first point just eliminates any cats with any common name you can think of. The next 3 points are actually quantifiable things which could be used to narrow down the search. The last two points would require some sort of image recognition or painstakingly going through each picture in however many Twitter accounts that has narrowed it down to.
Oh, and she's a female feline. That should help you all some more.
Consider this a challenge to find my cat on Twitter!
Seriously, I do wonder how much those details narrow it down to. Is it a few hundred? A few thousand? A dozen? I have no idea.
I read last week that pet toothpaste is a $2 billion a year industry in the U.S.
I don't think that toothpaste would make a very good pet, but I suppose it has advantages. Cheap, low maintenance, doesn't eat.
It is likely using the same codebase that is used to recognize individual people and could likely be expanded to other interesting research like recognizing individual birds in the wild.
We had one white cat that it thought was a person in a few photos. It also recognizes my daughter's Barbie Dolls and think they're a person. There are several statue photos that Google Photos has listed as people too.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
So, do we call these people petophiles? ...I'll show myself out.
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
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's not worth quibbling. My point is that these headlines are obnoxious.
I do not block ads. I do block third party scripts.
It seems to have some problems differentiating between Llamas, and incorrectly identifying coyotes.
Was this designed by city folk?
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