How Google’s New Photos App Can Tell Cats From Dogs

The photo labeling feature is a dancing bear. Yes it's impressive it dances at all, but it's quite bad it it. I have tons of kids soccer pictures they were labeled Football, Rugby Football, Baseball and Golf. Worse though it doesn't have any duplication detection or it's severely broken. I have a lot of near-duplicates because I use Picasa and I have both it's inputs and output (cropped, etc).

So nearly ever "auto created" college it suggests contains all duplicate photos. It even created an animation cycling through duplicate photos (with slightly different lighting). It's a great start but I think it's 5 years from being "good".

A number of people have said that Photos has grouped their photos by people, with Google saying that the feature can recognise faces over time ... I don't have that, and I want to try it. Anyone know a way of forcing it to show me People? I only have Places and Things.

I like what Google's done! I can search for 'baby' and get all the photos with babies (few false positives here and there). Hopefully in the near future they'll add feedback options so we can point out errors in classification.

My problem with the hype around this auto-tagging is that Microsoft had this in OneDrive months ago:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2876548/microsoft-onedrive-ad...

I've found Google Photos to be fairly bad at this, actually. Here's a few results from searching my photos for "dog":

https://goo.gl/photos/pDwHPzcG3w541ubV6

As others have said it is kind of meh.

However, what really bothers me is the fact it tried to 'opt me in' to backing up my photos [again] to Google, despite the fact I had the option turned off already. Additionally, many of the prompts [even with it turned off!] imply some level of syncing/communication with Google.

And the fact I regularly find the Google+ app "re-enabled" mysteriously when I've had it disabled for months.

Can Google stop "resetting" my privacy settings and hoping I don't notice yet with these updates?

It really is starting to irritate me to the point where I'm thinking of dumping Google products altogether, honestly.

yes give google all your photos so their ai can analyze them.