Amazon unveiled the upcoming AI-powered feature in the early hours of Wednesday morning, along with a host of smart home security devices due to launch in 2025.
The lost dogs AI feature is yet to be cleared for local use, although the company confirmed it would consider an Australian launch if it proved successful in the US.
The announcement comes amid heightened scrutiny of AI use, one day after Australian musicians and authors appeared before a Senate inquiry to urge the government to retain copyright laws and strictly regulate the use of the technology.
Amazon revealed plans to deploy more AI features in its Ring and Blink doorbell and security cameras at an event in New York, where the company unveiled 10 products.
The most curious AI-powered feature revealed at the event was called Search Party, which Ring and Blink Asia Pacific managing director Mark Fletcher said could help reunite households with their missing dogs.
The feature, which will launch in the US, will work when a Ring doorbell user reports their dog as lost in a Ring Neighbours app.
Nearby users with connected outdoor cameras may then receive notifications when dogs are spotted in footage from their cameras, and can choose to compare the footage to a photo of the dog and share their location with its owner.
"(It will give) them the option of looking through their cameras to see if there's a match," Mr Fletcher told AAP.
"AI can be used for many, many things and so what we're making sure to do is listen to our customers and make sure that we can solve some problems using this technology."
Ring has yet to launch a community app in Australia but Mr Fletcher said the company would "look at everything international".
As well as the Search Party feature, Amazon will use AI in its smart home devices to recognise regular faces, to artificially improve video quality, and to produce and deliver descriptions of movement outside homes.
Several of the company's Ring cameras will capture 4K video for the first time, which Mr Fletcher said could give more households another reason to install internet-connected security cameras.
"Over 80 per cent of our customers are still looking to buy smart home security so we know there's growth in this market," he said.
"We're still in the infancy stages."
More than 7.6 million Australian households had already installed smart home devices, according to figures from Telsyte, which estimated the smart video camera market was worth $330 million by 2023
9°C