World News Headlines November 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling 0 Google Arts & Culture app’s new feature finds art lookalikes for your pet 0 0000 0 0 more Google Arts & Culture app’s new feature finds art lookalikes for your pet November 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling now playing Transferring money from UAE abroad: what are my cheapest options November 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling WIN With Nespresso This Mother’s Day November 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling NBA Playoffs 2022: A Casual Fan's Guide to the Postseason November 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling Best New Climbing Gear of 2022 November 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling A Local Weekend Travel Guide to Austin, Texas November 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling First Drive: 2022 Range Rover Ups the Luxury SUV Experience November 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling Most Stylish Rain Jackets, Parkas, and Trench Coats for Men November 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling EU eyes Russian oil import ban as Moscow strikes western Ukraine November 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling World-class Clark Int’l Airport opens new 110,000 square-meter passenger terminal November 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling PCG: Bodies of 5 children who drowned in Taal Lake found November 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling Google Arts & Culture app’s new feature finds art lookalikes for your pet The Google Arts & Culture app has been updated to be able to identify photos of animals, find paintings that are reportedly similar to said animals, and then show you said artwork. It leaves something to be desired. The app’s new Pet Portraits feature operates in much the same way as the old Art Selfie feature from 2018. Simply download the Google Arts & Culture app, hit the camera button at the bottom of the screen, select the green Pet Portraits filter, then take a photo of your pet. You can also upload a picture from your album, if your cat isn’t feeling particularly photogenic. From there, Google’s trained computer vision algorithm will evaluate the image to determine what type of creature it’s looking at, before a machine learning algorithm sifts through tens of thousands of artworks to find animals that “look most similar.” SEE ALSO: Transform your photos into art with the Google Arts & Culture app’s new feature Unfortunately, there appears to be a world of possibility hidden in that phrase. Mashable’s tests largely surfaced animals that bore only a passing resemblance to uploaded pets, in that the supplied photograph and presented artworks did all feature a lightish dog with floppy ears, or a brownish cat with eyes. Everything else from breed to build to patterning was so far removed from the original that you’d be unlikely to draw a connection between the animals if you weren’t told there was one. Results are cropped in on the animal artwork and presented side by side with your pet’s portrait, so you can see exactly how much Google messed up. From there you can flick through multiple alleged matches, or tap on the surfaced artworks for more information and to view them in their entirety. After all, this is a feature primarily targeted toward stoking people’s interest in art. Pet Portraits also doesn’t work with all animal species, so you’re out of luck if your pet isn’t a dog, cat, fish, bird, reptile, horse, or rabbit. Mashable’s testing found that uploading a stock image of a mouse returned drawings of wolves. It might be good for your rodent’s self esteem, but it isn’t all that accurate. You can feed your pet to the Google machine to hopefully help it learn, but don’t expect to come out of it convinced your cat belonged to Louis Wain in their first life. Related Related posts: Get a grip on our data-driven world with this $40 online bootcamp ‘Paedophile hunters’ do not violate right to privacy, UK Supreme Court rules as convict’s appeal dismissed – ‘The interests of children have priority over any interest a paedophile could have in being allowed to engage in criminal conduct’ tags: RSS Feed World News 0000 0 0 previous Build your professional IT skills with this discounted CompTIA training bundle next Japan to give minors $882 in cash, vouchers to boost economy
