According to Google, the Pixel 8 Pro gives you “AI in your hand”, packaged up in a flagship smartphone thatPixel 8 pro phones, Pixel Watch 2, and Pixel Buds Pro earbuds, in New York on October 4, 2023. . While the original Nexus devices were more about providing a reference model for developers to address a “vanilla Android” experience, the Pixel devices have been about
You can see that throughout the package. Cutting-edge photo editing tools have been reduced to little more than circling the object you want removed. tell us how much blurring you want removed, and a CSI-inspiredElsewhere in the software, you have AI helping improve the transcription service in the Sound Recorder app, correcting grammar in short messages and texts, faster language translation services, and using the Google Bard project to create your own AI assistant.
The implementation is weak. It's a standalone app that offers a single function - measure an object’s temperature. In practice, it is erratic, with the temperature readout apparently dependent on distance from the thing.
Even if that lines up, clearance is given, and you can start taking your temperature, the question of “why” remains. This addition has come out of relatively nowhere.