- The Ring app is now sending messages with AI-Generated Text Descriptions
- Each alarm tells you what happens in the video before you see it
- The feature is rolling out to call premium users in the US and Canada today
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If you have a rings security camera or doorbell, there is good news – you can now get AI -generated messages on your phone that describe exactly what happens before you’ve seen the video.
Each review will include a short excerpt of text that describes what triggered motion detection so you can decide if it needs your attention or not with a moment before pressing through and opening the app.
The notifications are designed to be as concise as possible with a focus on the person, animal or object moving and what they are doing.
Video descriptions work with all ring video -droches and cameras and roll out to Ring Premium subscribers in the US and Canada from today (international release dates have not yet been announced). For more information about Ring Membership and Pricing, look at our full guide to Ring subscriptions.
This is not the first time Ring has used AI to describe what is going on in your video clips. Earlier this year, the company launched Smart Video Search, which allows you to use natural language to look for specific events recorded by your doorbell or camera so you don’t have to spend time scrubbing through recordings to find a certain moment.
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Ring’s video descriptions (which the feature is officially known) sounds like a welcome addition to the company’s best video dessert bells and best home security cameras, and I look forward to testing them myself to see how exact they are.
Back in 2023, my colleague Lance Ulanoff tested a security camera that promised to deliver AI-generated messages based on analysis of a single video. The Psync camera’s geniuses are compact and sweet appearance with features including object tracking, but its chat-GPT-driven descriptions were often wide by the brand.
During testing, the camera produced a flood of messages that were often comically inaccurate. Although it could usually discover people, it would often say that they had something they were not and when the camera once claimed that an entire family was sitting around an empty dining table. Psync’s software also hallucinated a motorcycle visible in a closed shed and a child playing in a deserted farm.
Two years is a long time in tech, so I’m gently optimistic that Ring’s smart descriptions will be much more accurate than that.
