Apple’s Visual Intelligence is a built-in take on Google Lens

Apple announced a caller diagnostic called Visual Intelligence that volition beryllium portion of the company’s Apple Intelligence suite of AI features “later this year.” The diagnostic works overmuch similar akin features offered by different multimodal AI systems from Google oregon OpenAI.

Visual Intelligence lets you “instantly larn astir everything you see,” Apple’s Craig Federighi said during the company’s September lawsuit today. Federighi said the diagnostic is “enabled by Camera Control,” which is the company’s sanction for a caller capacitive camera fastener that’s present connected the broadside of the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro phones. To trigger it, users volition request to click and clasp the button, past constituent the phone’s camera astatine immoderate they’re funny about.

The diagnostic tin hunt Google oregon nonstop an representation to ChatGPT to bash things similar place a canine breed oregon get a restaurant’s hours, conscionable by pointing the telephone astatine either. Apple didn’t denote erstwhile the diagnostic would debut beyond that it’s coming this year.

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