Earlier this week, Google introduced Bard, its experimental conversational artificial intelligence (AI) service that is basically the company's answer to ChatGPT. Unfortunately, it immediately got a photo fact wrong in its debut example.
As part of several initiatives being brought forward today, which is Safer Internet Day, Google will expand its SafeSearch settings in Google Image Search and will automatically blur explicit imagery even when SafeSearch isn't turned on.
Artificial intelligence-powered ChatGPT by OpenAI has been the center of a lot of discussions in recent weeks. Viewing the results of a recent test here at PetaPixel, while we agree the tech is still evolving, it already seems poised to take on the elephant in the room: Google Search.
Google has added its Lens image search directly onto its homepage, allowing users to access the company's advanced image recognition tool directly from the search box.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a new searchable map for Instagram where users can discover nearby local businesses.
A Google executive says that younger users are now increasingly turning to apps like Instagram and TikTok instead of Google Search or Maps to discover new places or search for information.
Google has announced that it is taking additional steps to improve the representation of various skin tones across its products and has implemented a new scale that better shows the spectrum of real-world skin color.
Google has expanded the immersion of its Maps app by combining street view with aerial imagery. It also showed a coming technology that utilizes a smartphone camera to provide information on real-time situations.
Google has expanded the capabilities of Search. The company says it understands that sometimes it's hard to find the words when looking for something, and Search is now smart enough to understand images and text together to make that easier.
Google now allows minors, those under the age of 18, to request that images of themselves be removed from Search results. Originally announced in August, the feature is now widely available.
Google Lens, the company's image recognition technology, will soon allow a smartphone's camera to not only recognize objects in the real world but be combined with search terms to allow users to ask questions about what the camera sees.
In September 2018, the European Parliament voted in favor of the highly controversial EU Copyright Directive, which aims to "harmonize" copyright law across Europe. But critics argue the law could destroy the open Web, and now Google is showing an eye-opening look at what its search results could soon look like.
Google I/O brought with it a lot of exciting updates for Google+, not the least of which were a slew of automatic improvements to Google+ Photos including Auto Highlight, Auto Enhance and Auto Awesome. But the updates didn't stop when I/O ended last Friday.
Today, Google's Search blog announced that the company has started implementing some impressive technology that will allow you to search for your photos based on what they contain visually, even if there's not a tag in sight.