Google’s enhancing Google Lens, its computer vision-powered app that brings up information related to the objects it identifies, with new features.
Starting today, Lens can surface skin conditions similar to what you might see on your own skin, like moles and rashes. Uploading a picture or photo through Lens will kick off a search for visual matches, which will also work for other physical maladies that you might not be sure how to describe with words (like a bump on the lip, a line on nails or hair loss).
It’s a step short of the AI-driven app Google launched in 2021 to diagnose skin, hair and nail conditions. That app, which debuted first in the E.U., faced barriers to entry in the U.S., where it would’ve had to been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. (Google declined to seek approval.)
