Google’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are
One of the best things my smart home does is help me care for my pets, and security cameras are particularly useful for keeping track of my many critters. But the barrage of notifications they send often means I miss important ones. So, when Google announced its new Pet Memory feature for Gemini for Home, I thought this could be the perfect solution. Pet Memory promises to teach your Google Home smart home who your pets are, allowing connected Nest cameras to go beyond simply t
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Google announced a Pet Memory feature for its smart home system that promises to teach connected cameras to recognize individual pets by name. The feature is intended to reduce notification clutter by distinguishing between different animals and enabling automations like pet-specific feeding schedules. In testing, the AI failed to reliably tell three cats apart from one another after two weeks, making the pet-focused smart home automations largely ineffective.
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