Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

The remark frames recent advances in mobile computing—especially computer vision and on-device machine learning—as a shift from phones merely recording images to interpreting them. By likening a phone’s emerging capabilities to the human brain, it emphasizes pattern recognition, contextual inference, and “understanding” rather than raw processing power. The quote also reflects a common rhetorical move in tech commentary: translating technical progress (neural networks, image recognition, sensor fusion) into human analogies to make it legible and exciting. Implicitly, it points to new applications—assistive features, search, augmented reality, and automation—while also raising questions about what “understand” truly means in machines.