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Google lens aims to bring augmented reality to cameras

“Our computer vision systems are now even better than humans,” Pichai told a crowd of 7,000 people at the Shoreline Amphitheatre during his keynote speech Wednesday morning at Google I/O, the company’s developers conference. “We are beginning to understand images and videos ... and give you the right information in a meaningful way.”

Artificial intelligence “is getting into deep learning stage, and Google is clearly a leader in this area,” saod Parks Associates mobile analyst Harry Wang.

From the article "Google lens aims to bring augmented reality to cameras" by Nicholas Cheng.

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