Forget the robots – this is the reason AI is the best thing to happen since smartphone cameras (www.techradar.com)

Google quietly added a Gemini-powered "Ask" button to Google Photos — a small magnifying-glass icon with a Gemini logo — that lets you run natural‑language, multimodal searches over your personal photo library. In a practical test, the author with ~172,000 photos typed "picture of bay window with shades" and Gemini returned 59 relevant images in seconds, including the exact blinds configuration needed to explain the setup to a salesperson. The results even included contextual commentary about the home, showing how the model can both retrieve and summarize visual personal data. The move underscores a broader point: the most immediate, transformative uses of generative AI are not flashy humanoid robots but fast, semantic search and reasoning over large private datasets. Technically this is multimodal understanding (objects, scenes, configurations, sometimes unlabeled faces/places) paired with scalable retrieval and quick on‑device/cloud inference. Implications include major productivity gains for photo management, home improvement, discovery, and e‑commerce use cases — but also renewed questions about privacy, model access, and how cloud models index and summarize sensitive personal archives. In short, Gemini Ask is a pragmatic example of AI turning messy, massive personal data into actionable answers.