Ring Adds AI Video Descriptions to iPhone App Notifications

[MacRumors]

Ring is updating its iOS app with support for AI-powered video descriptions, with a quick text-based summary of what's going on in video footage.

The AI summaries show up in motion notifications, so when you get a motion alert on iPhone, you'll be able to see a text summary of what the camera has detected. The text alerts show context about what's happening so you can decide whether or not you need to tap into the video feed to see more.

Ring says that the text alerts are meant to give customers with the ability to distinguish urgent activity from everyday activity at a glance. Video descriptions describe the main subject in the video that caused the motion alert, and the action that's happening.

Video descriptions are available for all existing Ring doorbells and cameras, and are rolling out to Ring Home Premium subscribers in the United States and Canada starting today. The feature can be turned on in the Ring app.

Article Link: Ring Adds AI Video Descriptions to iPhone App Notifications

 

[Nxybagr]

Still awaiting the long promised HomeKit comparability

 

[rafark]

That’s actually VERY useful

 

[bLackjackj]

Still awaiting the long promised HomeKit comparability

Dreamland? Amazon have never promised Homekit compatibility. They have ALWAYS relied on their own subscription model.

 

[Unity451]

"Spider is making a web in front of the camera"

"It's just a bird"

"The wind knocked over your trash can again"

"Friendly man with a mask reorganizing the stuff in your garage"

 

[Macalway]

So, if your motion detector goes off, do you really need someone telling you what your are seeing? Still, it might be useful.

 

[Nxybagr]

Dreamland? Amazon have never promised Homekit compatibility. They have ALWAYS relied on their own subscription model.

It was promised back in 2016 https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/06/home...s-how-to-integrate-for-free-using-homebridge/

Was one of the reasons I purchased one

 

[centauratlas]

I just went to update the ring app to look and got this on the phone and iPad. More server issues?

 

[TinyMito]

Should make it even smarter.. have Siri yells at the dog to stop tearing up paper towel...

 

[DrJR]

“The roomba has run through a pile of dog $&^”

 

[_smoee]

I'm sure nothing will go wrong with this ....

 

[Boeingfan]

Another US/CAN only feature. They must be the only countries on earth.

 

[ZipZilla]

"Your dog is going to be in big trouble when it gets home." Hahaha

 

[coolfactor]

Another US/CAN only feature. They must be the only countries on earth.

I hear ya. As a Canadian, it drives me nutty whenever these online publications write articles in a way that suggests that they only have American readers. I often nudge that fact, but need to be careful to not upset the mods. 🤗

Could it be a licensing issue in this case? Rights/laws/privacy issue? I'm sure navigating the laws in each country is a full-time job, and frustrating for developers of these features to follow which should be enabled and where.

 

[mazz0]

Surely if you have someone/something at home moving about that might trigger motion alerts then you have motion alerts turned off, otherwise you’ll keep getting false alarms?

 

[Momof2.1107]

I’m definitely turning this on. I wonder if this will also work for my car cam?

 

[entropys]

Another US/CAN only feature. They must be the only countries on earth.

Maybe they should merge…

More seriously, Canadians don’t have as much to whinge about as other countries. especially anglosphere ones like Australia, NZ and the UK with similar legal systems and language (well, except NZ, and people from Glasgow. Who knows what they are saying?)

 

[jsavvy]

Another US/CAN only feature. They must be the only countries on earth.

Maybe they’re the only ones who don’t care that AI is continually monitoring their home? I’d love to see how that data is used.

 

[CarlJ]

Hmm, Siri has been describing pictures messaged to me for a while now. Sometimes the descriptions are even correct.

 

[Boeingfan]

Another US/CAN only feature. They must be the only countries on earth.

Perhaps we need to have a North American iPhone, a European iPhone and an ‘international’ iPhone, given the expanding feature sets requiring zoning control.

 

[B4U]

Imagine seeing this...
Living Room
Your significant other is cheating on you at the couch right now. 🤣

 

[Piggie]

Notification alert.

"You wife seems to have passed out and it laying on the sofa. A pizza delivery man seems to be attempting to revive her. Moaning can be heard"

 

[KRiWOLF]

I mean.. is this on device AI or something amazon can see? Having AI submitting searchable text, alert-triggering keywords, or possible text reading etc., sounds like a bad idea to me..

 

[macduke]

“There’s a spider web that we think is definitely a person snooping around on your backyard left camera.”

“There’s a car headlight casting a shadow from a mailbox at that’s obviously a bad guy creeping up your driveway on your front left camera.”

Can’t wait.

 

[svish]

Good to know about it. Will be useful if the AI notifications work as intended. Waiting to hear more from actual users.