Google Lens Will Turn Your Phone's Camera into a Smart AI Assistant:
Google Assistant will be getting an AI makeover with the addition of Google Lens. This new feature is basically a set of vision-based computing capabilities within the Assistant.
"With Google Lens, your smartphone camera won't just see what you see," Google's Twitter explanation reads. "But will also understand what you see to help you take action." The latest innovation was announced at their I/O 2017 conference this afternoon and safe to say, we're pretty excited about it.Google Lens is similar to Bixby Vision, which is exclusive to the Galaxy S8, in that it tells you more about what you're smartphone lens is seeing. It will be rolled via updates to the Google Assistant and Google Photos. At this point, it's unclear whether Google will create a separate Lens app; for now, it's merely an inbuilt Assistant feature.
If you're walking in a street downtown and you see a set of restaurants across you, you can point your phone because we know where you are and we have our knowledge graph and we know what you're looking at, we can give you the right information in a meaningful way. Sundar Pichai
Another interesting aspect of this tool was the role it will play in your Photos. Anil Sabharwal at Google confirmed that "Lens will be rolling out to Google Photos later this year." The audience were understandably wowed by the demo because Lens will also be able to identify features in your photos after you've taken them.