At its annual I/O developer conference on Wednesday, Google shifted focus from traditionally showcasing its latest Android operating system to a comprehensive showcase of advances in artificial intelligence (AI). The event focused on the company’s latest generation of language models and progress on its widely adopted chatbot, Bard.
At its annual I/O developer conference on Wednesday, Google shifted focus from traditionally showcasing its latest Android operating system to a comprehensive showcase of advances in artificial intelligence (AI). The event focused on the company’s latest generation of language models and progress on its widely adopted chatbot, Bard.
Google’s AI capabilities have been made more accessible to users around the world by integrating the technology into popular applications and hardware such as Gmail, Google Docs & Sheets, Maps, and the latest Pixel smartphones.
Google’s AI capabilities have been made more accessible to users around the world by integrating the technology into popular applications and hardware such as Gmail, Google Docs & Sheets, Maps, and the latest Pixel smartphones.
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G-mail
One of the most prominent ways users can access AI power powered by Google’s Pathways Language Model (PaLM)-2 Large Language Model (LLM) is within Gmail, the popular email client used by Google. It is used in The latter extends the existing feature Smart Compose to ‘Help Me Write’. In this case, the user has her LLM at Google auto-generate the email body based on basic text prompts.
Users can also ask the AI tool to “recreate” the email body if they are not satisfied with the tone of the text, or use the “refinement” option to add more detail within the body. increase. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, during his presentation of the feature, highlighted examples such as automating emails addressed to a company’s customer care service.
Google search
This hasn’t been made public yet, but Pichai confirmed during the presentation that Google Search’s AI will be extended to users “soon.” The new version of Search has an additional section at the top of the Google Search page with the following paragraphs: This paragraph provides reference links to sources of information, a tab at the bottom prompting follow-up questions, an option to rate Google’s AI search results, and, for image searches, a box displaying the search results. . Track image credibility on the web with Google Images and Lens.
However, Pichai said the feature is currently in development and the overall interface and experience will likely “evolve” over time. Google’s first deployment of AI in search will also include a prompt letting users know that the feature is under development. Although “experimental,” users will be able to “talk” to Bard, an AI-powered chatbot based on their queries, using the “talk” button just below the search field.
Pixel phone photo
Google is also bringing Magic Editor to the Photos app with generative AI. The latter uses AI to remove unwanted objects in the background, as well as complete the torso, rearrange elements in the image, and adjust lighting tones. Pichai added that the feature is currently experimental and will be available on “select” Pixel phones (presumably the upcoming Pixel 8 series) by the end of this year.
Google Docs and Sheets
The AI upgrades to Google Docs and Sheets are part of Google’s AI rollout for Workspace enterprise clients. One of Workspace’s key features is Duet AI, which provides contextual cues when multiple users collaborate on a document. Duet offers to track changes as you edit documents, auto-create cells in spreadsheets based on a shared database of files, and even populate data from uploaded invoices. increase.
