Google and Apple go head to head with smart photo assistants

If you're like many people, you have thousands of photos on your phone, long forgotten after you've posted a few on Instagram or Facebook. Apple and Google are both applying a form of artificial intelligence called'machine learning' to organize your pictures and video -- and along the way, help you rediscover last year's vacation, dinner with close friends and a casual summer outing to the park. This image shows a Google collage generated by machine using images taken on Sept. 13, 2016, in New York, of Binu Paulose playing with a dog. Apple and Google are both applying machine learning to organize your pictures and video. Apple's tools are part of last month's iOS 10 system update for iPhones and iPads.