Google brings more AI to search engine in ‘significant’ update

Google's latest AI update to Search lets you point your phone camera at an object or subject and ask a question about it. — Photo: Mohssen Assanimoghaddam/dpa

LONDON: Google has announced a number of artificial intelligence-powered updates to its search engine, calling them “some of our most significant Search updates to date”.

From Thursday (Oct 3), users of the Google app on both Android and iOS will be able to use their voice to ask a question as they point their phone camera at an object or subject.