- The Ring application now sends notifications with text descriptions generated by AI
- Each alert tells you what’s going on in the video before watching it
- The functionality is deployed to ring premium users in the United States and Canada today
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If you have a security camera or a doorbell, there are good news – you can now get notifications generated by Ai -Ai on your phone, describing exactly what is happening before watching the video.
Each notification will include a brief text extract describing what has triggered movement detection, so that you can decide whether it needs your attention or not at a glance before drawing and opening the application.
The notifications are designed to be as succinct as possible, focusing on the person, animal or object that moves and what they do.
Video descriptions work with all ringing ringtops and video cameras, and take place for Ring Premium subscribers to the United States and Canada from today (international exit dates must still be announced). For more details on the subscriptions and the prices of the rings, take a look at our complete guide to ring subscriptions.
This is not the first time that Ring has used AI to describe what’s going on in your video clips. Earlier this year, the company has launched an intelligent video search, which allows you to use natural language to search for specific events recorded by your doorbell or camera, so you don’t have to spend time rubbing images to find a special moment.
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Ring’s video descriptions (as the functionality is officially known) resembles a welcome addition to the best video bells of the company and the best security cameras at home, and I can’t wait to test them myself to see how precise they are.
In 2023, my colleague launched Ulanoff tested a security camera which promised to deliver notifications generated by AIA based on the analysis of a single video image. The Genie S of the Psychic camera is compact and cute, with features including the monitoring of objects, but its cat descriptions fed by GPT were often wide from the brand.
During the tests, the camera produced a deluge of notifications, which were often comically inaccurate. Although it can usually detect people, they often say that they were carrying something they were not, and once the camera said that a whole family was sitting around an empty dining table. Psychic software also hallucinated a visible motorcycle in a closed hangar and a child playing in a deserted courtyard.
Two years, it is a long time in technology, so I am carefully optimistic that the intelligent Ring descriptions will be much more precise than that.
