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Google Pet Memory identifies all of one reviewer's cats as Smokey after two weeks of Nest cam testing
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After two weeks of testing Google's Pet Memory feature for Gemini for Home, The Verge found it could not distinguish between three individual cats, tagging every cat sighting as a single pet named Smokey.
Pet Memory is the first attempt by a major smart-home platform to move beyond species-level animal detection to named-individual recognition, so its failure mode is the first real signal of how far that capability actually stretches today. Anyone evaluating the $20/month Google Home Advanced Plan to automate feeding, alerts, or pet-specific routines around multiple animals has no evidence yet that the feature will hold up beyond a single pet. The Verge remains the only outlet carrying this story, so the failure case is one reviewer, one home, and three similarly-marked cats.
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Pet Memory requires the $20/month Google Home Advanced Plan and currently runs only on indoor Nest cameras.
After two weeks of testing, Gemini for Home labelled all three of the reviewer's cats as a single pet named Smokey and could not tell them apart by name.
Amazon Ring, Wyze, and Apple Home (via HomeKit Secure Video) offer AI descriptions of camera footage but stop at species-level labels like "cat" or "dog."
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