2001: A House Odyssey is over 50 years previous now but its speaking AI, HAL 9000, stays iconic. Nevertheless, the truth of speaking AIs has been fairly disappointing – Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant are helpful, however they hardly ever really feel sensible. That’s altering and altering quick.
Google is setting the stage (actually) for its annual I/O convention (you possibly can watch the livestream right here, it begins at 17:00 UTC) and shared a teaser of what’s to come back – its Gemini AI has realized new methods.
It’s a “multi-modal” AI, that means that it could actually seamlessly incorporate textual content, audio and imagery. This enables it to run on a Pixel cellphone and see the world by its digital camera eyes whereas holding a dialog about what’s happening round it. Take a look at the transient demo under:
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In case you missed it, take a look at OpenAI’s GPT-4o demo, which exhibits off very comparable expertise – an AI speaking to a human and discussing their environment in actual time. A battle of AIs is coming, particularly since Apple desires to combine ChatGPT into iOS 18 (Samsung, Oppo and OnePlus have picked Gemini).
What does that imply for the Google Assistant? Properly, we don’t know – Google I/O could be its farewell as Gemini takes over or the 2 may coexist for some time since Gemini continues to be lacking some performance (as a few of you identified within the feedback of the livestream put up). That stated, it seems like Google has main Gemini bulletins prepared, so the lacking performance may simply be ready to be launched.
One other attention-grabbing factor to consider – we hear that the Pixel 8 will get on-device Gemini Nano in any case (identical to the Professional) and the Pixel 9 collection is certain to have much more compute energy on faucet. How a lot of that Gemini demo is operating on system and the way a lot of it occurs within the cloud?
This yr’s Google I/O is to not be missed. Apart from the AI stuff, Google may even launch Android 15 and we anticipate to listen to about AI assistant integration, satellite tv for pc communication and different new developments that rose to prominence since I/O 2023.
