- The ring application now sends notifications with text descriptions generated by AI
- Each alert tells you what is happening in the video before seeing it
- The feature is being implemented to call Premium users in the USA. And Canada today
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If you have a ring safety camera or bell, there is good news: now you can receive notifications generated by AI on your phone, describing exactly what is happening before watching the video.
Each notification will include a brief text fragment that describes what triggered movement detection, so it can decide whether or not you need a look at a glance before touching and opening the application.
Notifications are designed to be as succinct as possible, focusing on the person, the animal or object that moves and what they are doing.
Video descriptions work with all the timbres and video ring cameras, and are being implemented to call premium subscribers in the United States and Canada today (the international launch dates have not yet been announced). For more details on membersia and ring prices, take a look at our complete ring subscription guide.
This is not the first time that Ring has used AI to describe what is happening in his video clips. Earlier this year, the company launched Smart Video Search, which allows it to use natural language to find specific events recorded by its bell or camera, so it does not have to spend time scrubbing through the footage to find a particular time.
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Ring video descriptions (as the function is officially known) sound like an addition to the best videos of the company and the best home security cameras, and I hope to try them myself to see how precise they are.
In 2023, my colleague Lance Ulanoff tested a security camera that promised to deliver notifications generated by AI based on the analysis of a single video frame. The Psync Camera Gen is compact and cute appearance, with characteristics that include the monitoring of objects, but their descriptions with GPT with GPT were often from the brand.
During the tests, the camera produced a flood of notifications, which were often comically inaccurate. While he could generally detect people, he often said they carried something they were not, and once the camera said that an entire family was sitting around an empty dining table. The PSYnc software also hallucinated a visible motorcycle in a closed shed and a child who played in a desert patio.
Two years is a long time in technology, so I am cautiously optimistic that Ring’s smart descriptions will be much more precise than that.
