The introduction of Bard was a bit of a fiasco, but of course Google won’t give up on AI. This thread is for posting updates on what’s happening on the AI front at Google.
At today’s Google I/O a nice new feature in Gmail was shown: “help me write”. This is like ChatGPT, but I like that there are standard options where you can ask to make the message more formal, or to ask for a longer message on the same topic. Very handy. Downside, in the future emails are more and more going to be AI’s talking to each other on behalf of users and companies. I’m not even kidding!
We’ve seen text-to-image—and more recently—text-to-video generation, but with this, I can see on the horizon whole feature films being created with a few simple phrases. Wild times.
Google’s Circle to Search feature just rolled out for my Pixel Fold. Initial impression: it might actually live up to its hype.
One really useful thing for me will be identifying flora and fauna at parks where I volunteer. It’s kind of embarrassing to be asked by a visitor what something is and I can’t answer.
That is a pretty cool feature, and probably the one I’m most interested in overall. My wife has an app on her phone that works kinda of similarly just for identifying flora that she uses when we go camping. It’s been cool to use. I can imagine how fun and useful a much more expanded version of that would be.
