Google Maps Can Soon Scan Your Screenshots To Plan Your Vacation (theverge.com) 15
Google is rolling out new AI-powered features across Maps, Search, and Hotels to simplify travel planning, including a screenshot-detection tool in Maps that identifies and saves locations mentioned in image text. The Verge reports: Once the new screenshot list is enabled in Maps, the Gemini-powered feature will detect places that are mentioned in text within screenshots on the device, show users the locations on the map, and allow them to review and save locations to a sharable list. The screenshot list feature will start rolling out in English this week to iOS users in the US, with Android support "coming soon."
AI Overviews for Google Search are also being updated to expand travel planning tools, with itinerary-building features rolling out in English to mobile and desktop devices in the US this week that can create trip ideas for "distinct regions or entire countries." Users can use terms like "create a vacation itinerary for Greece that focuses on history" to explore reviews and photos from other users alongside a map of location recommendations, which can be saved to Google Maps or exported to Docs or Gmail.
AI Overviews for Google Search are also being updated to expand travel planning tools, with itinerary-building features rolling out in English to mobile and desktop devices in the US this week that can create trip ideas for "distinct regions or entire countries." Users can use terms like "create a vacation itinerary for Greece that focuses on history" to explore reviews and photos from other users alongside a map of location recommendations, which can be saved to Google Maps or exported to Docs or Gmail.
Yikes (Score:2)
Dear Maps, people need you to help them deliver food, not to plan a trip to Tahiti
Also why was the screenshot detection easier to develop on iOS?
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>Also why was the screenshot detection easier to develop on iOS?
Because text detection in pictures is a feature of iOS, so they can use it directly. I guess in Android there is no such generic thing.
Really? (Score:2)
I don't even know anybody under 60 who even knows what a screenshot IS!
These people have 1500 tabs open, they don't NEED screenshots.
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Huh...? I don't know anyone over ~40 who knows what a screenshot is.
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If you're in that same age group, then I was taking screenshots before you were born.
What will they think of next (Score:1)
My screenshots include sprinkler parts from Home Depot. Does this mean Google will plan a vacation to Home Depot for me? Or maybe the Rain Bird headquarters?
Missing something (Score:2)
Must be missing something here on how this would be useful. Is it really that common to have a screenshot of an address saved? I find it easier to just copy the address directly into Maps.
It's not convoluted enough that I'd call it Rube Goldberg, but I would call it useless.
Who. Asked. (Score:2)
nt
Don't tell Microsoft (Score:3)
They might use it as another excuse to continuously take screenshots of your desktop.
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Correct. This is what big tech has been trying to do for years: know EVERYTHING everyone does on their devices. Any excuse of the most modest "improvements" and "AI support" is just to get the users to be ok with it or at least don't balk too much.
"We record your every action and perform full AI analysis on it so the regime^h^h^h^h^h^h^hYOU, of course YOU only YOU can know and recall what you were doing illegally, I mean, privately on our, I mean, your device."
shove it, Google. (Score:3)
Don't want it. Didn't ask for it. Won't use it.
I think I speak for a large majority of the (Score:2)
Just checking screenshot default folder ... (Score:2)
Pleas