Google introduced another ability According to the search circle feature at the company’s annual I/O developer conference, it’s something that can help students. better understand potentially difficult class topics. The feature will now be able to show them step-by-step instructions for “physics and math word problems”. While some math problems require users to sign up for Google’s experimental Search Labs feature, they simply need to activate the feature by long-pressing the home button or navigation bar and then circling the problem that’s challenging them.
The company says Circle to Search’s new capability is made possible by its new family of artificial intelligence models, called LearnLM, built and refined specifically for learning. It also plans to tweak this particular capability and release an improved version later this year that can handle more complex problems “involving symbolic formulas, charts, graphs and more.” Google Launched Circle to search at the Samsung Unpacked event earlier this year, as the feature was initially available on the Galaxy 24 as well as the Pixel 8 devices. It’s also now available for the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S22, Z Fold, Z Flip, Pixel 6, and Pixel 7 devices, and it’s coming to more devices in the future.
In addition to the new Circle to Search capability, Google also announced that devices that can support Gemini for its Android chatbot assistant can now present it as an overlay on top of the currently open app. Users can then drag and drop images directly from the overlay into applications such as Gmail, or use the overlay to search for information without taking away from whatever they’re doing. They can tap “Ask this video” to find specific information on an open YouTube video, and if they have access to Gemini Advanced, they can use “Ask this PDF” to find information within long documents.
Google also provides multimodal capabilities to the Nano, the smallest model of the Gemini family, which can process data on the device. The updated Gemini Nano, which can process sights, sounds and spoken language, is coming to Google’s TalkBack screen reader later this year. Gemini Nano will allow TalkBack to describe images on the screen faster and even without an internet connection. Finally, Google is currently testing Gemini Nano, a feature that can alert users while a call is in progress if it detects common chat patterns associated with scams. Users will be alerted, for example, when they talk to someone who asks them for their PIN or password, or when they talk to someone who asks them to buy gift cards.
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