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Gemini season has already arrived for Google.
Gemini AI Gemini, Google's language model that powers chatbots and other multimodal tools, will be expanded to other apps and features in the coming months, the technology company said earlier this week. Announced at Google I/O, the next developer conference.
“Gemini used to be just a chatbot, but now it's becoming a personal AI assistant,” Amar Subramanya, vice president of engineering for Gemini Experiences, told USA TODAY in an interview. “From a few relatively basic commands that you can issue to the Assistant, by taking the power of this large language model with all the inference capabilities and combining it with all Google apps and services, this I think it's very powerful.”
While some of the updates will initially be rolled out to developers and Gemini Advanced subscribers, there is one change that will be more notable to most Google users. That is, Gemini's overview will appear in your default search results.
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AI in Google Search
Some users may have noticed that some of their Google search results have changed. That's because Gemini is in it right now.
The tech company says AI is the future of search, and clearly that future is here.
Google has begun rolling out AI Overview, a feature that leverages the Gemini foundation model. This feature displays AI-generated answers and summaries for some users' search queries, displayed on top of the traditional search results we're used to. Not all searches will get an AI summary, but queries that can provide summarized results will.
Previous search generative experiences with similar features required users to opt in, but AI Overview does not. The change is rolling out across the United States, and the company plans to extend it to users around the world by the end of the year.
Can I turn off AI Overview in Google Search?
no. AI Overview is now part of Google Search and appears when triggered by a query.
However, you can narrow down your results by filtering for web links (go to the Details tab and tap/click on Web to filter) to get something closer to the traditional results page that you're probably looking for. Masu.
How can I tell where a summary came from?
Please rest assured that the source of the AI will be cited. Links to websites are listed within the AI Overview overview.
The real question is whether users actually take the time to look at the site that generated the summaries, or whether they continue their research beyond the summaries. It's still hard to know in the early stages of a search shift.
“Links included in AI summaries receive more clicks than if the page were displayed as a traditional web listing for that query,” Liz Reid, Google's vice president of search, wrote in a blog post.
As a journalist, I am aware that people searching for information provided in my writing and the writing of my colleagues may not be aware of the resources Google Search is using to educate users. , it's both interesting and discouraging to think that you might not be seeing the information. Original work.
Even worse, what if the context isn't clear? How can fact-checking be done on the World Wide Web, where digital literacy is increasingly tested?
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“Last year, we introduced a feature called Google Double-check,” Subramanya says. This should help users check the information generated by Gemini.
“We’re going to continue to make progress here,” he says. “This was our first step in terms of helping people do research the right way.”
Google is in the Age of Gemini, and we may all be in the Age of Gemini soon.
