At its annual Google I/O developer conference, Google unveiled its vision for integrating artificial intelligence across its suite of products and services. The highlights include:
– New AI model Gemini 1.5 Pro powering features like “Ask Photos” to search images for insights, summarizing emails, and generating AI lectures from textbooks.
– Multimodal capabilities allowing Gemini to understand text, voice, and images, similar to OpenAI’s GPT-4.
– Improved search with more natural queries, summarized or in-depth results, and targeted suggestions based on context.
– Virtual AI “teammates” to help with tasks, to-do lists, and workflow management.
– Project Astra from DeepMind to enable AI assistants to identify real-world objects through phone cameras.
– Integration of AI functions into Android devices later this year, including image generation in Messages and Gmail, and detecting suspicious call activity.
Google aims to make its AI a ubiquitous part of users’ daily lives, from finding information to interacting with others and managing tasks. The company also announced measures to detect AI-generated content and partnerships to improve its AI models’ capabilities and address potential risks.
