Presentation: Engineering AI for Creativity and Curiosity on Mobile

Bhavuk Jain: My topic is, "Engineering AI for Creativity and Curiosity on Mobile," in which I'll talk about two products that I personally worked on, along with our brilliant team, one where we used AI for generating beautiful images, and other for making visual search deeply intuitive and better. I'll first talk about how modern AI systems become products, starting from foundational models, and then dive deeper into the specifics of the two features, discussing the product principles, their architecture, and how we build these features. I want to ask you all a quick question, while searching for a product on Google Search, while scrolling through Instagram, you come across a cool pair of sneakers or a handbag, so earlier, who all have come across this problem that you had to take a screenshot of the product, switch apps, upload the image, and then search for it, just to figure out what that product is? Second, who here has spent more than 10 minutes scrolling through different images, trying to figure out that one perfect wallpaper for your device? I'm sure you have already experienced these points of friction that inspired the two features that we'll be covering today. We…