With our next generation of AI-powered technology, we're making it more visual, natural and intuitive to explore information. Our products at Google have a singular goal: to be as helpful to you as possible, in moments big and small. And we've long believed that artificial intelligence can supercharge how we deliver on that goal. Since the early days of Search, AI has helped us with language understanding, making results more helpful. Over the years, we've deepened our investment in AI and can now understand information in its many forms -- from language understanding to image understanding, video understanding and even understanding the real world.

Technology giant Google is using artificial intelligence (AI) to put smartphone cameras at the center of its Search platform. In a blog post today, the company said it has reached a critical milestone in understanding the Multimask Unified Model (MUM), which is an AI powered system that essentially allows people to Search for what they see in front of them. Google said it will be introducing ways to "search visually" in the coming months "with the ability to ask questions about what you see". MUM was a system Google first unveiled at the I/O conference earlier this year, and it essentially extends the Google Lens feature that the company has been promoting for some years now. With the new features, Google will allow users to tap the Lens icon on Search and ask Google to look for patterns on the Internet.