Drop a box of toothpicks on the floor and, thanks to a recently updated app, your iPhone can now count how many you need to pick up.
How does your phone change you?
The counting mode on iScanner uses artificial intelligence (AI) to save you time when adding up toothpicks or other objects you want to count. The iScanner software is one of a growing number of AI-powered counting and tagging apps available. The ability to count things with your phone may be more convenient than you expect.
“I remember reading about the update and not thinking much about it because I couldn't think of a time when I would need the update,” Andreas Grant, a network security engineer who works with AI, said in an email interview.
"But lo and behold, I was wrong. My son was overjoyed when he found a way to easily count all his coins."
