Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

Google 的 Gemini Spark 现在可以管理你的 Google 相册库了

Google is integrating more of its services with AI, as the company announced that its personal agent, Gemini Spark, can now manage your Google Photos library. That means you can ask Gemini Spark to execute tasks in Google Photos, like editing images, curating albums, automatically creating shared albums with your favorite shots, turning concert flyer photos into calendar appointments, running workflows, and more.

Google 正在将更多的服务与人工智能进行整合。该公司宣布，其个人智能体 Gemini Spark 现在可以管理你的 Google 相册库。这意味着你可以要求 Gemini Spark 在 Google 相册中执行任务，例如编辑图片、整理相册、自动创建包含你最爱照片的共享相册、将音乐会传单照片转换为日历预约、运行工作流等等。

On Thursday evening, Google Photos lead Shimrit Ben-Yair shared the new capabilities in a post on X, noting that the new capabilities would roll out over the next few weeks to eligible Gemini AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S. in English. The company didn’t say if or when it would roll out more broadly to international markets.

周四晚上，Google 相册负责人 Shimrit Ben-Yair 在 X 上发帖分享了这些新功能，并指出这些新功能将在未来几周内向美国符合条件的 Gemini AI Pro 和 Ultra 订阅用户推出（仅限英语）。该公司并未说明是否或何时会向国际市场更广泛地推广。

The addition is yet another example of Google attempting to find product-market fit in terms of making AI appealing to consumers — in this case, by automating tedious tasks and helping people manage what are now often sizable photo libraries. The move comes at a time when the AI industry is reckoning with the fact that it hasn’t properly sold the promise of AI to consumers.

这一新增功能是 Google 试图寻找产品与市场契合点的又一例证，旨在让 AI 对消费者更具吸引力——具体而言，是通过自动化繁琐的任务，帮助人们管理如今往往规模庞大的照片库。此举正值 AI 行业意识到其尚未向消费者充分兑现 AI 承诺之际。

This week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Bloomberg that the industry has “done a terrible job” communicating the benefits of technology, which has led to backlash from communities around the world. Announcements like this from Google are part of the problem. While they may make certain tasks easier, on their own, such features don’t seem revolutionary or even, really, necessary. (It’s not that difficult to make a photo album after all.)

本周，OpenAI 首席执行官 Sam Altman 对彭博社表示，该行业在传达技术优势方面“做得非常糟糕”，这导致了全球社区的抵制。Google 发布的此类公告正是问题的一部分。虽然它们可能会让某些任务变得更容易，但就其本身而言，这些功能看起来并不具有革命性，甚至并非真正必要。（毕竟，制作一个相册并不难。）

But the competitive nature of the AI industry is pushing companies to promote every AI-infused upgrade, no matter how small, instead of waiting until the company can tell a broader story about how AI has shaped its software for the better.

但 AI 行业的竞争性质正促使各家公司宣传每一项融入 AI 的升级，无论其多么微小，而不是等到公司能够讲述一个关于 AI 如何让其软件变得更好的更宏大的故事。

To use Gemini Spark with Google Photos, you’ll need to first connect Google Photos to Gemini, then toggle on Spark in the top corner of the Gemini app, and enter your prompt.

要将 Gemini Spark 与 Google 相册配合使用，你需要先将 Google 相册连接到 Gemini，然后在 Gemini 应用的右上角开启 Spark，并输入你的指令。