Google Pixel 2 Camera Uses AI For Better Pictures: How It Works

The Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL devices, which were revealed earlier this month, are highly focused on imaging, just like their predecessors, the first Pixel devices. On Wednesday, the smartphone company released its first developer preview for Android 8.1 -- Oreo OS, which will make use of the Pixel 2 series' high-end camera capabilities. The Pixel 2 series builds on the success of the first Pixel devices, which were awarded the best smartphone camera of 2016 by DxOMark. The company has, in the past year worked with DxOMark on the cameras for the Pixel 2 and revealed the device on Oct. 4. One of the new features of the device is its neural networks API which is its artificial intelligence based software, that the company says will "enhance the on-device machine intelligence."