Google's AI looks beneath the surface for information about people, places, and things in images

Google today announced it will begin showing quick facts related to photos in Google Images, enabled by AI. Starting this week in the U.S., users who search for images on mobile might see information from Google's Knowledge Graph -- Google's database of billions of facts -- including people, places, or things germane to specific pictures. Google says the new feature, which will start to appear on some photos within Google Images before expanding to more languages and surfaces over time, is intended to provide context around both images and the webpages hosting them. It's estimated that images currently make up 12.4% of search queries on Google, and at least a portion of these are irrelevant or manipulated. In an effort to address this, Google earlier this year began identifying misleading photos in Google Images with a fact-check label, expanding the function beyond its standard non-image searches and video.