Google I/O 2024: A Roundup of AI Innovation


Google's annual I/O conference delivered a wave of AI announcements, showcasing advancements in search, personal assistance, accessibility, and creative tools. Key highlights include AI-powered search summaries, a new lightweight Gemini model, and an AI project that identifies objects through your phone camera. Google also offered a glimpse into the future with its vision for AI Agents and an AI co-worker for the workplace.

Beyond Google, the news touched on OpenAI's latest language model update and their focus on AI assistants. The articles also discussed debates on generative AI's impact and its expanding role in software development.

Google Search at Google I/O: You can now ask questions with video and 3 other features
Google's vision of an AI-driven future for search is coming to fruition with the rollout of AI Overviews in the US, and soon globally. This feature, previously dubbed the Search Generative Experience (SGE), introduces AI-generated summaries at the top of many search results, changing how billions interact with Google Search.At the forefront of the tech...
Google's AI model just got faster with Gemini 1.5 Flash
Gemini is getting a facelift.Sundar Pichai announced updates to Google's AI model at the company's annual Google I/O event on May 14, including updates to Gemini 1.5 Pro and a new model of Google Gemini called Gemini 1.5 Flash. "We want everyone to benefit from what Gemini can do," Pichai said. Tweet may have been deleted Gemini...
Google I/O: Project Astra can tell where you live just by looking out the window
Google has a new AI agent that can tell you things about what's around you. A lot of things. Called "Project Astra," it's a Gemini-based multimodal AI tool that lets you point your phone's camera at real-life stuff and get a spoken description of what you're looking at. In a demo, shown during Google's I/O conference Tuesday, the tool was pointed at...
Google I/O 2024: 'AI Agents' are AI personal assistants that can return your shoes
Google will be sharing lots of products ready to utilize at today's big Google I/O event.However, one announcement from CEO Sundar Pichai was more of an idea that's in the works: AI Agents. According to Pichai, AI Agents are still in "early days," but their description shows what Google envisions what AI can do for users. What are 'AI Agents'?Pichai...
Ask Photos is Google's new AI feature for Google Photos
At Google's annual I/O conference, the tech giant announced a more powerful AI-based search experience within Google Photos. People upload 6 billion photos and videos to the platform every day, and now they'll be able to search for those elements more efficiently using not just keywords but phrases. SEE ALSO: Google...
What is Gemini Live? How Google's real-time chatbot competes with GPT-4o
Google made several big announcements at I/O 2024, including a new way to have natural voice conversations with its Gemini model.
What OpenAI did
Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing, May 14, 2024 This post offers an overview of GPT-4o, the new model released by chatGPT. "GPT-4o appears to be a step up over GPT-4 and is the smartest model I have used. However, it does not represent a major leap over the previous version of GPT-4, the way that GPT-4 was...
OpenAI isn't just competing with Google Search. It's coming for Google Assistant, Alexa & Siri, too.
It's not a search engine; it's a voice assistant.When OpenAI randomly shared late last week that it would have a big announcement to kick off Monday, rumors swirled. Was OpenAI planning to try to overshadow the planned Google I/O event that the search giant had already scheduled for the following day, Tuesday? Was OpenAI about to drop a ChatGPT-powered...
Gmail gets big Gemini update: 3 new AI features, including 'CliffsNotes' for your inbox
At Google I/O, the search-engine tech giant boasted that Gmail is poised to get new AI capabilities via Gemini. With Gemini underpinning Gmail, a new field will appear, allowing you to ask the AI chatbot to summarize certain emails in your inbox.Summarization isn't the only thing rolling out to Gmail. Here are three features Google has announced for...
Google's accessible hands-free cursor is coming to Android
Android users will soon have access to a revolutionarily accessible form of device control: Completely hands-free navigation, using the power of Google AI and facial tracking.Part of the company's long list of updates and announcements rolling out at its developer keynote event today, the new feature is a mobile version of Google's desktop offering...
Google I/O: Google announces new safety framework for responsible AI
As Google positions its upgraded generative AI as teacher, assistant, and recommendation guru, the company is also trying to turn its models into a bad actor's worst enemy. "It's clear that AI is already helping people," said James Manyika, Google's senior vice president of research, technology, and society, to the crowd at the company's Google I/O...
Everything announced at Google I/O, including AI Agents, Ask Photos, and more
Google held its I/O event aimed at developers on Tuesday. The event was expected to provide lots of news and announcements, and it did not disappoint. Nothing is ever certain, but coming into Tuesday's event, it was expected that Google would announce significant updates to its chatbot Gemini. In actuality, we got a mess of AI announcements, most centered...
Veo, Google's Sora competitor, is hyped by Donald Glover
Google, with the help of creative renaissance man Donald Glover, has demoed an AI video generator to compete with OpenAI's Sora. The model is called Veo, and while no clear launch date or rollout plan has been announced, the demo does appear to show a Sora-like product, apparently capable of generating high-quality, convincing video. SEE ALSO:...
Google I/O: New Gemini App wants to be the AI assistant to top all AI assistants
Google's self-proclaimed "most intelligent AI experience" yet is redefining how humans interact with AI via a new app. The latest Gemini offering was announced at Google I/O on Tuesday. "Our vision for the Gemini app is to be the most helpful, personal AI assistant by giving you direct access to Google's latest AI models," said Sissie Hsao, general...
Gemini can now make generative memes in Google Messages
Now the unfunniest guy you know can be even less funny in the group chat.At Google I/O on Tuesday, Google showed off what felt like dozens of new things you can do with its in-house Gemini AI, but one of them stood out more than the others. In Google Messages on Android devices, users will be able to bring up the Gemini overlay and create AI-generated...
Gemini Nano can detect scam calls for you
Google I/O is underway, and the company is firing on all cylinders, introducing feature after feature that leverages AI to make your life easier. Some of the features that caught our eye have to do with Gemini Nano, the company's smallest Gemini-based model. It's still pretty capable, but it's small enough to run entirely on device, meaning it can perform...
'AI Teammate' announced at Google I/O 2024 — your new AI-powered co-worker friend
If you've ever used an AI chatbot, you'd know it's a very singular experience. Your chatbot interacts with what an individual says or asks.At Google I/O, as part of its Gemini for Workspace platform, the search giant shared a new feature: AI Teammate. AI Teammate basically takes that solo chatbot experience and puts the AI bot in a multi-user space,...
How to sign up for Google Labs - and 5 reasons why you should
Google has plenty of generative AI tools in the works, including new ones that just launched at I/O, and you can start testing them now.
Generative AI may be creating more work than it saves
Addressing a problem or opportunity with generative AI might be overkill.
Rote automation is so last year: AI pushes more intelligence into software development
There's been a lot of attention on employing generative AI to create or modify software code. Now it's time to look at how AI can assist IT professionals and managers in other ways.

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