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'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...
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 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 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...
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...
Google made several big announcements at I/O 2024, including a new way to have natural voice conversations with its Gemini model.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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'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...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
Addressing a problem or opportunity with generative AI might be overkill.
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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