{"id":7730,"date":"2019-03-21T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2019-03-21T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T17:16:08","slug":"cameras-that-understand-portrait-mode-and-google-lens-benedict-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/21\/cameras-that-understand-portrait-mode-and-google-lens-benedict-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameras that understand: portrait mode and Google Lens \u2014 Benedict Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Asking a computer to \u2018tell me about this picture\u2019 poses other problems, though. We do not have HAL 9000, nor any path to it, and we cannot recognise any arbitrary object, but we can make a guess, of varying quality, in quite a lot of categories. So how should the user know what would work, and how does the system know what kind of guess to make? Should this all happen in one app with a general promise, or many apps with specific promises? Should you have a poster mode, a \u2018solve this equation\u2019 mode, a date mode, a books mode and a product search mode? Or should you just have mode for \u2018wave the phone\u2019s camera at things and something good will probably happen\u2019?<br \/>\nThis last is the approach Google is taking with \u2018Lens\u2019, which is integrated into the Android camera app next to \u2018Portrait\u2019 &#8211; point it at things and magic happens. Mostly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ben-evans.com\/benedictevans\/2019\/2\/5\/cameras-that-understand\">Cameras that understand: portrait mode and Google Lens \u2014 Benedict Evans<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asking a computer to \u2018tell me about this picture\u2019 poses other problems, though. We do not have HAL 9000, nor any path to it, and we cannot recognise any arbitrary object, but we can make a guess, of varying quality, in quite a lot of categories. So how should the user know what would work, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/21\/cameras-that-understand-portrait-mode-and-google-lens-benedict-evans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cameras that understand: portrait mode and Google Lens \u2014 Benedict Evans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}