Google’s A.I.-Powered Camera Was Destined to Fail

A program just can’t tell what’s ‘interesting’

Dave Gershgorn
OneZero
Published in
3 min readOct 17, 2019

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Credit: The Washington Post/Getty Images

GGoogle just pulled the plug on its Clips camera, a tiny device that was supposed to capture photos of the little snippets of your day that would otherwise slip by.

Maybe it would snap a picture of your baby smiling as you went to pick them up, or your dog wagging its tail as…

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Dave Gershgorn
OneZero

Senior Writer at OneZero covering surveillance, facial recognition, DIY tech, and artificial intelligence. Previously: Qz, PopSci, and NYTimes.