Soon Your Google Searches Can Combine Text and Images

In May, Google executives unveiled experimental new artificial intelligence trained with text and images they said would make internet searches more intuitive. Wednesday, Google offered a glimpse into how the tech will change the way people search the web. Starting next year, the Multitask Unified Model, or MUM, will enable Google users to combine text and image searches using Lens, a smartphone app that's also incorporated into Google search and other products. So you could, for example, take a picture of a shirt with Lens, then search for "socks with this pattern." Searching "how to fix" on an image of a bike part will surface instructional videos or blog posts.