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Google Lens Is Coming To All Android Phones Running Google Photos (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the heads-up dept.

Google announced that Google Lens, a machine learning-powered image analyzer, will be rolling out to more Android devices and make an appearance on iOS. "This means users will be able to scan things through the app to receive information, like a dog's breed or a flower type," reports The Verge. Some phones will also be able to access Lens through the Google Assistant too, including flagships from Samsung, Huawei, LG, Motorola, Sony, and HMD / Nokia. "Google says Lens is rolling out in batches, so you might not get the update right away," reports The Verge.

57 comments

  1. So this means by war4peace · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That every picture taken goes up to their servers, gets analyzed and then the response is sent back?

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    1. Re:So this means by Mr0bvious · · Score: 2

      Yeah a bit like Google Photos I suppose.

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    2. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, it means I'm going to disable or uninstall Lens as soon as it shows up on my phone -- before it ever has a chance to run.

    3. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I hope they enjoy my dick pics.

    4. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I still use my iPhone 6 and it works great. I save 45$ a month by keeping using it. As a privileged customer, I can get a new phone from my company when I want.

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    5. Re:So this means by war4peace · · Score: 1

      True.

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    6. Re:So this means by Darinbob · · Score: 1

      "This picture appears to be a baby sitting in the bath naked. We have notified the police, please do not move from your present location."

    7. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yep, and the Lens will also be force-pushed to last year's Nexus phones which Google will not provide security updates anymore.

    8. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Don't be naive, Google has removed the uninstallation capability from its bundleware long time ago. You will bend over and just take what they want your phone to have.

    9. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That every picture taken goes up to their servers, gets analyzed and then the response is sent back?

      No, it's a button you press on the camera app, shortcut on the pixel-2 is to squeeze the phone and then it analyses the image and then fails to tell you whats in it. You can also disable cloud storage of your images so they stay local.

    10. Re:So this means by el_smurfo · · Score: 1

      They get 3 years of security updates, just not OS updates.

    11. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Lowest denominator content will always attract more views.

      You confuse "boring" with "intelligent." You take videos of fountains. You're proud of a video of a guy dressed as Batman playing an old rock song. It might be soothing to a small infant? It's clearly lowest common denominator, just not in a fun way.

    12. Re:So this means by war4peace · · Score: 1

      Thank you, I was hoping they implement a local analysis method, like generating a signature of various shapes and comparing them against a database.

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    13. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Dear Team Creimer,

      I just noticed that the Humpty-Dumpty video has ~375 millions views, that should make you salivate!

      I have plenty of ideas to make the views on your own youtube channel skyrocket but you didn't contact me yet. Is it because I am a lady? Ethell says that you are sexist but I hope it isn't true.

      Anyway, I will give you a free hint anyway: Dress-up as Humpty in your videos, you shouldn't need that much makeup making this a money saving situation in your own case.

      My YouTube channel has 222K subscribers and many videos with hundreds of thousands of views:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      Now, with some slight adjustments, I think that together, we could make the view count skyrocket on your very own Team Creimer youtube channel :)

      Please feel confident to contact me if you want me to coach you, we aren't living so far away from each other so we could even easily meet.

      Love XX,

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      New Video: "Outlining Batman, Robin & Riddler in Photoshop (Time Lapse)"

    14. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have noted that Chris uses child psychology to convince his so called trolls to give up by pretending they just give him free publicity. That's adoring! ;-)

      Anyway Chris would have a hard time to learn anything above child level matters, including psychology.

      https://childdevelopmentinfo.c...

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    15. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Chris,

      I know concepts such as gravity are out of your comprehension abilities judging on the post I quoted below but anyway there is the truth:

      Fattest denominator content will always attract more views.

      Granny PottyMouth is willing to help you so why haven't you contacted her yet?

      IMHO, she has a great idea: Dressing you as Creimy-Dumpty, that would qualify as Fat content thus attracting more views. Also, don't hesitate to show full-body views in your videos. Your mass will definitely attract more view due to the gravity formula,

      Read what Chris Reimer (cdreimer) wrote here:
      https://groups.google.com/foru...

      You are such a perfect miracle imbecile Chris!

      I can't believe that you are actually imbecile enough to post this thread here. It makes you look like an even more imbecile fucktard yet.

      As some have stated on that thread "dot is NOT an operator", you fucktard! Apperently, you did not read the thread yourself or more likely, your ameba brain reading comprehension doesn't allow you to understand its content.

      It's like asking: What is the dot operator precedence in Linux Slackware 1.2.3? You can't daisy chain dot operators in Windows versions (e.g. 3.1, 3.11, etc.)

      What is the precedence in the 2.5 IQ that you possess?

      And if you ever asked about real operators the word is "Precedence" you fucktard!

      Dots are not operators in ANY OOP language you silly fuck!

      See java:
      https://docs.oracle.com/javase...

      For python, you could have googled it but no, you needed to grab the attention on that google group and didn't care that it made you look like a total fool.
      http://reeborg.ca/docs/oop_py_...

      See example in above link:
      Fido.head.mouth.teeth.canine.hurts();
      Other example:
      Criemer.head.brain.isHurting(); This is always false because your head is empty you dumb fuck!

      But Criemer.head.isEmpty() always returns true...

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    16. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Team Creimer dreams:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      I have just closed my eyes again
      Climbed aboard the Team Creimer train
      Driver take away my worries of today
      And leave tomorrow behind

      Team Creimer, I believe you can get me through the night
      Team Creimer, I believe we can reach the morning light

      Fly me high through the starry skies
      Or maybe to an astral plane
      Cross the highways of fantasy
      Help me to forget today's pain

      Team Creimer, I believe you can get me through the night
      Team Creimer, I believe we can reach the morning light

      Though the dawn may be coming soon
      There still may be some time
      Fly me away to the bright side of the moon
      And meet me on the other side

      Team Creimer, I believe you can get me through the night
      Team Creimer, I believe we can reach the morning light

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    17. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I write and follow a script to keep my videos at five minutes. Otherwise, the videos would be 30+ minutes long and lot less interesting.

      LOL! That's very funny! POFL!

      Puffing On Floor Laughing

      https://simple.wikipedia.org/w...

      Perfectly suited for creimer!

      P.S. we have a puffer con in L.A. next May and we still have some room for affiliates...

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    18. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      creimer is already busy with too many affiliate link programs.

      creimer would accept the mascot position although if pay is more than 5$ an hour, which is much more than creimer does collecting second hand lottery tickets.

      creimer would save the puffer con with costume charge and creimer would look more like a puffer than this guy:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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    19. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you targeting preteens?

    20. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Anyone else getting their IP address blocked for AC comments?

    21. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hard to say if Slashdot management is finally cracking down on creimertards or a preventive measure against DDOS attacks. Maybe both.

    22. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nah, Chris. You have ONE AND ONLY ONE troll, remember? You don't matter enough to cause a DDOS, you lisping shambling rhino.

    23. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Chris, there were bots spamming the site with links to some storefront, the automated posting eventually DoS'd the site until it coughed up 500s.
      Let this be a lesson why on sites like slashdot, the marketing community is despised. These are the kind of things people think about, bad days at work, broken forums, when you proudly proclaim you've turned slashdot into a revenue stream.

    24. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As a Sprint customer for 25 years, I get a lot of great deals. I'll probably wait a few years before getting a new iPhone.

      So cute when people believe that their cell phone company is cutting them great loyalty deals. You could finance a $1000 iphone X for 2 years at $45/mo and pay between 20 and 30/mo for service from an MNVO. Plus you're not locked in a contract, no worrying about carrier locked phones. If you leave your coverage area you can just buy a SIM with coverage from a store.

    25. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Jesus... After last week's outage, I wouldn't be surprised if creimer reduced his offer to buy Slashdot for three cents. A penny woukd be too generous for this wreckage.

    26. Re:So this means by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hahahah man we all know that this is just creimer's hobby. Maybe even he knows that. As long as he's safely contained and not SEO marketing revenue stream business modeling for coffee money.

      Let's at least let the man have his pleasures, I hope he does ok with it.

  2. Receiving Information by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 1

    This means users will be able to scan things through the app to receive information, like a dog's breed or a flower type

    Or a sheep.

    1. Re:Receiving Information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Got any other tranny Twitters you want to link?

  3. quietly-providing-ai-technology-for-drone-strike- by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    DO NO EVIL? https://theintercept.com/2018/03/06/google-is-quietly-providing-ai-technology-for-drone-strike-targeting-project/

  4. Do I want this? by no-body · · Score: 1

    No ** 2000 (hope filter here now swallows it!

  5. Skynet now has eyes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Google can use your CPU to do the data analysis and then send them the results. This is a massive neural network and the birth of mass computer vision, which is linked to every person on the planet.

    It is a historic / global event.

    1. Re:Skynet now has eyes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fuck me, the paranoia has reached epic fucking level on this site.

    2. Re:Skynet now has eyes. by ColdWetDog · · Score: 1

      You must be new here.

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    3. Re:Skynet now has eyes. by el_smurfo · · Score: 1

      Wasn't that the plot of "Kingsmen"?

    4. Re:Skynet now has eyes. by jtgd · · Score: 1

      Seeing as his ID is 127863 yours is 752185 I'd say YOU must be new here. :)

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  6. audio ? by swell · · Score: 1

    I'd like to identify bird calls. I'm new to SoCal and don't recognize the sounds of many birds here. If Google can't do it, do you know of any catalog of bird sounds? Gak. How would they be indexed? There's no way to index noises! Google is my only hope.

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    1. Re:audio ? by Darinbob · · Score: 1

      Google says that's not a bird you hear whistling, but that you have a deviated septum.

    2. Re:audio ? by ace123 · · Score: 1

      Bird sounds visualized using machine learning... hmm, where have I seen this before?

      You want an app? I bet Google's already on it.

    3. Re:audio ? by swell · · Score: 1

      Thanks for the link Ace. Interesting but it doesn't help me identify a random bird by its sound. I hear them during my walks but I rarely see them. Yesterday it was a flock of parrots, easy to recognize that sound, but usually they are just a mystery.

      Maybe I can reach the people who put that experiment together. Should be as easy for them/Google to do a search based on a sound as a search based on an image. I could record the sound with my phone during my travels and paste it into their search engine.

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    4. Re:audio ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nice blank black page you linked to, but I think he was actually looking for something.

  7. Furnature and dog pics? Yeah right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    More like let me analyze all your photos, confirm with Facefarm and public records, and keep everything with the backdoor unlocked because asking enlightened people to be ok with UK-level facial recognition CCTV cameras is too much. So, let's trick these Google loving morons into rebranding a biometrics collection tool as "a feature." Makey China so happy! Russia: da. The Pentagram: Do whatever because we're getting everything idiots put on the internet either way....INCLUDING YOU AC! *Que 1950s theremin*

  8. The first thing people will try by Gaygirlie · · Score: 1

    The first thing people will use this thing with will be dicks. Then boobs.

    1. Re:The first thing people will try by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Spotted dick pics will be most often in Britain, while Sula nebouxii (Blue-footed booby) will be mostly from the eastern Pacific, so I think the servers will be optimized to handle the expected load.

      Or did you mean something else?

    2. Re:The first thing people will try by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1

      I can't speak for you; but I suspect most people don't have any trouble identifying either of those things - no Google assistance required.

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    3. Re:The first thing people will try by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1

      Spotted dick pics will be most often in Britain, while Sula nebouxii (Blue-footed booby) will be mostly from the eastern Pacific,

      The internet being what it is... I'm too afraid to test your theory out.

      Especially on the first one.

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    4. Re: The first thing people will try by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Spotted dick is the name of a sponge pudding with fruit (think of a slightly heavier cake with sultanas and raisins). It's usually served hot with custard.

  9. XKCD by darkain · · Score: 1

    Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1425/

  10. Google Lens Analysis Results: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You've got AIDS, not HIV, but full blown AIDS. Please seek medical treatment from Google Dr. App.

  11. Will it support QR Codes? by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    I have a barcode reader app, but so far the only Android devices which ship with the ability to recognize a bar code are Android M devices with Google Now On Tap. This is even more pathetic than still not supporting pinless pairing in 2018 even though BlueZ does it.

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  12. Results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I tried it on my Android phone, using few recent photos, to impressive results.

    A photo of a Viz (British adult comic, here in the UK) annual and it offered me results about Viz Comic.

    A photo of a restaurant in Brighton, called Holy Phuk. It gave me info and results about the restaurant.

    A photo of my cat, sitting near my laptop. It gave me now info on the cat, but did offer me results about Lenovo and IBM. My laptop is a Lenovo.

    Again, impressive, but I think the usage could be limited.

  13. Oreo only by simasg · · Score: 1

    Seems to be Android 8 (Oreo) only for now.