This new tool is effectively just aGeminichatbot built into Google Photos.

Google provided a screenshot of this query in action.

Of course, this AI feature isn’t magic.

It recognizes Lena’s face because her parents have manually identified her in Google Photos.

While the Ask Photos feature is clearly useful, it won’t always be perfect.

In the past, this Google Photos update would have been a minor announcement at I/O.

But today’s two-hour I/O keynote was shockingly uneventful.

It was even stranger than the press event thatOpenAIhosted yesterday.