Artificial Intelligence in the Palm of Your Hand Artificial intelligence techniques are increasingly showing up in smartphone applications.
For example, Google has developed Google Goggles, a smartphone application
providing a visual search engine. Just take a picture of a book, landmark, or sign using
a smartphone’s camera and Goggles will perform image processing, image analysis,
and text recognition, and then initiate a Web search to identify the object. If you are anEnglish speaker visiting in France, you can take a picture of a sign, menu, or other text and have it translated to English. Beyond Goggles, Google is actively working on voiceto-voice language translation. Soon you will be able to speak English into your phone and have your words spoken in Spanish, Chinese, or another language. Smartphones
will undoubtedly get smarter as AI continues to be utilized in innovative ways.