Google’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are
TL;DR
Google's new Pet Memory feature for Gemini for Home is meant to teach a smart home which pets live there, so Nest cameras can report which animal they saw instead of just flagging that an animal appeared. The Verge tried it to cut the constant stream of camera notifications down to the ones that matter. In practice the feature failed to tell the cats apart reliably, which undercuts the point of the recognition.
Nauti's Take
The direction is promising: cameras that distinguish individual pets would finally reduce notification floods to the events that actually matter. The limit shows up in practice, because recognition that confuses similar animals turns a filter into fresh noise.
For smart home enthusiasts this is an interesting early test, but anyone relying on these alerts should keep the existing rules running.
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