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- Microsoft's iPhone camera app Pix can automatically find someone on LinkedIn from a business card.
- The app uses artificial intelligence and integration with LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, to do it.
- Pix is only available for iOS, so Android users are out of luck.
Your next networking event just got a little easier - thanks to artificial intelligence.
Microsoft on Friday released an update to its camera app, Pix, which lets you add somebody on LinkedIn just by snapping a photo of their business card.
"Pix is powered by AI to streamline and enhance the experience of taking a picture with a series of intelligent actions: recognizing the subject of a photo, inferring users' intent and capturing the best quality picture," said Josh Weisberg, principal program manager at Microsoft Research, said in a blog post.
Here's how it works.
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