Google Lens will let smartphone cameras understand what they see and take action

At Google's I/O developer conference, CEO Sundar Pichai announced a new technology called Google Lens. The idea with the product is to leverage Google's computer vision and AI technology in order to bring smarts directly to your phone's camera. As the company explains, the smartphone camera won't just see what you see, but will also understand what you see to help you take action. During a demo, Google showed off how you could point your camera at something and Lens tells you what it is -- like, it could identify the flower you're preparing to shoot. In another example, Pichai showed how Lens could do a common task -- connecting you to a home's Wi-Fi network by snapping a photo of the sticker on the router.