Google CEO Sundar Pichai concluded the company’s I/O developer conference. about a two-hour presentation Mentioned 121 times about AI. it happened everywhere.
Google’s newest AI model, Gemini 1.5 Flash, is built for speed and efficiency. The company said it created Flash because developers wanted a lighter, cheaper model than Gemini Pro for building AI-powered apps and services.
Google said it will double the Gemini context window to two million tokens, enough to process two hours of video, 22 hours of audio, more than 60,000 lines of code, or more than 1.4 million words.
But the bigger news is how the company is building AI into everything you already use. With search, it will be able to answer your complex questions (a la Copilot at Bing), but for now you’ll need to sign up for the company’s Search Labs to try it out. When AI knows better, AI-generated answers will appear alongside typical search results.
Google Photos was already smart enough to search for specific images or videos, but with AI, Google is taking things to the next level. If you’re a Google One subscriber in the US, you’ll be able to ask Google Photos a complex question, such as show me the best photo from each national park I’ve visited. You can also ask Google Photos to generate captions for you.
And if you have an Android device, Gemini integrates right into the device. Gemini will recognize the app, photo, or video you’re running, and you’ll be able to pull it up and ask it contextual questions like how to change settings or even who’s on the screen.
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Full of potential.
One of Google’s biggest projects is a visual multimodal AI assistant currently called Project Astra. It taps into the camera of a smartphone (or smart glasses) and can analyze what it sees in context and answer questions. Project Astra can suggest silly puns, as well as identify and identify things it sees. In the video demo, Project Astra defines the tweeter part of the speaker. Equal parts impressive and well, familiar. We tested it, here.
Elon Musk keeps adding policy after confusing policy.
The increasingly open world of X (Twitter) now considers the term ‘cisgender’ an insult. Owner Elon Musk cheered on his most intrepid users last June, saying, “‘cis’ or ‘cisgender’ is considered an insult on this platform.” On Tuesday, X reportedly began sending out official warnings. Quick reminder: this is not an insult.
He is moving on to a new project.
Ilya Sutskever at X, formerly Twitter, has announced his departure from OpenAI, nearly a decade after founding the company. He is confident that OpenAI will build [artificial general intelligence] It’s both secure and useful” under the leadership of CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman and CTO Mira Murati. Although Sutskever and Altman praised each other in their farewell messages, the two were embroiled in the company’s biggest scandal last year. Sutskever, who was a board member at the time, was involved in both of their dismissals.
