It means a better Magic Eraser and image boosting tech
At the tail end of its recent Made By Google event, the tech giant revealed the Pixel 8 Pro hosts its very own generative AI to help run certain features on the smartphone.
Be aware the device’s onboard AI won’t be on the same level as the company’s most advanced models. Instead, research teams came together to create a more distilled version that’s able to fit inside the Pixel 8 Pro and it’s still plenty powerful. According to Rick Osterloh, Senior Vice President of Devices and Services at Google, the flagship phone can run “generative AI with up to 150 times more computations than the largest [model]” on the Pixel 7. He goes on to say this tech enables “improved experiences”.
For example, the Magic Eraser tool on the Pixel 8 Pro is capable of generating new pixels to “fill in the spaces left behind” by removed objects or people. No smudges, no blending. Everything looks relatively clean. In one of the demonstrations, they had Magic Eraser remove a car from a photograph. It looks pretty good, for the most part. However, the now empty space does look a little smudged.
