Since first launching its generative AI assistant, Snap has been steadily rising the quantity of synthetic intelligence in its apps. Now, the corporate is including a slew of recent synthetic intelligence options and beginning to take a look at a bigger redesign of the app.
Snap is usually the primary to carry new AI options to its Snapchat+ subscribers, and the corporate is continuous that pattern with a brand new function known as My Selfies. The function makes use of selfies to create AI-generated photos of inventive poses and conditions of the person and their pals (if they’re additionally subscribed). The corporate can be launching a brand new “Grandparent Lens” that makes use of synthetic intelligence to think about what you’ll appear like as an older grownup.
Snapchat+ subscribers will even have entry to a brand new AI function in Reminiscence that may monitor a person’s beforehand saved Snaps. With this alteration, Reminiscences will have the ability to show photographs and movies edited with AI-generated subtitles or new AR lens results.
As well as, Snap is making its chatGPT-based MyAI assistant extra highly effective and in a position to “remedy issues” based mostly on photographs. The assistant will have the ability to translate restaurant menus, determine vegetation and perceive parking indicators, the corporate mentioned.
The brand new synthetic intelligence options come as Snap begins testing a bigger redesign of its app, which means Snapchat, lengthy criticized for a cluttered interface, turns into easier and extra intuitive. The brand new design will mix conversations and story content material between pals right into a single view, with tales sitting on prime of conversations. (Apparently, Snap beforehand underwent a broadly unpopular redesign in 2018 that mixed customers’ chats and tales right into a single feed.) The redesign will even remove separate tabs for Snap Maps, inserting them in within the “Chat” tab.
As a substitute of preserving separate sections for Highlight and Tales, Snap will merge the 2 right into a “Watch” feed that may algorithmically suggest content material. Whereas the present model of Snapchat has 5 totally different sections, the “lite” model may have simply three, together with the digital camera, which is able to nonetheless be the primary display customers see when launching the app.
Snap has had hassle with main redesigns prior to now, and the corporate has mentioned it intends to roll out the brand new look slowly, with solely a handful of customers beginning the replace.
