Google Nest 摄像头 Pet Memory 实测翻车：AI 认不出三只猫，智能宠物识别还差点火候

据 The Verge 报道，Google 为 Gemini for Home 推出的 Pet Memory 功能，号称能让 Nest 摄像头认出你家猫的名字，但实际测试两周后，AI 连三只猫都分不清。这件事对国内智能家居用户来说，不只是看个热闹，而是提醒我们：AI 摄像头“能认人”和“能认宠物”之间，还有很远的距离。

Gemini for Home promises its Nest cameras can recognize my cats by name — but it can’t tell Boone from Smokey, making pet-focused smart notifications and automations mostly useless.

One of the best things my smart home does is help me care for my pets , and security cameras are particularly useful for keeping track of my many critters. But the barrage of notifications they send often means I miss important ones. So, when Google announced its new Pet Memory feature for Gemini for Home , I thought this could be the perfect solution.

As The Verge ’s smart home reviewer, I test a lot of connected tech and have found my best use case for security cameras is monitoring my pets around my house and yard. They help keep the chickens safer from predators and my lunch safer from Gus, and act as a type of digital pet door for the cats. When I get a notification that there’s an animal at the door via a video doorbell and/or outdoor camera, it’s likely a cat wants to come in.

Amazon’s Ring , Wyze , and Apple Home (via its HomeKit Secure Video ) have also recently added AI-powered descriptions, and these often include the type of animal detected (not always correctly). But Google Home is the first to personalize it.

Still, I persisted in trying to get some use out of the feature, attempting to use Pet Memory to make my Aqara Pet Feeder smarter. I had previously set it up to trigger when Aqara’s G3 camera saw an animal , as it can’t identify species, let alone individuals.

放到国内来看，小米、华为、萤石、Aqara 等品牌的摄像头也在往 AI 识别方向走，但多数仍以人形检测、哭声检测为主。Google 这次踩的坑说明，宠物识别要真正可用，光靠大模型文本匹配还不够，视觉训练、用户纠正机制、多宠区分能力都得跟上。选购智能摄像头时，别被“AI 识别”四个字冲昏头，先想清楚自己最需要的是实时监控、录像回放，还是真正靠谱的自动化联动。

注：本文基于公开资料整理改写，信息来源于 The Verge