Amazon Ring’s AI Won’t Stop at Finding Your Lost Dog

Amazon.com Inc.’s new Search Party feature was one curious highlight among the raft of updates the company offered up on Tuesday at its annual hardware event in New York.

It works like this: Your dog has escaped. Luckily, you own an Amazon Ring camera, and it sends an alert telling you he’s on the move. You can post an alert to your neighbors to be on the lookout. Then, if a Ring camera somewhere else recognizes a dog that looks like yours, it’ll give that homeowner the option to let you know. From there, you can arrange a reunion.