Google might tell you f = ma, or something. I haven’t been to school for a long time. | Image: Google Google is enhancing Android’s Circle to Search — the feature that lets you literally circle something on your Android phone’s screen to search it on Google — with a new ability to generate instructions on how to solve school math and physics problems. Using an Android phone or tablet, students can now use Circle to Search to get AI assistance on mathematical word problems from their homework. The feature will help unpack the problem and list what the student needs to do to get the correct answer. According to Google, it won’t actually do the homework for you — only help you approach the problem. Over the past year, the use of AI tools like ChatGPT has become a hot topic in the field of education, with plenty of concern over how students... Continue reading…

The dream of contextual search is alive. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is updating Gemini on Android to let its AI better tap into what’s on your screen. The update should allow Gemini to lean into one of its best use cases, helping you make sense of a limited set of data as you go about your day. If you set Gemini as the default assist on your Android phone, it can already summarize or answer questions about a webpage or a screenshot. Soon, it’ll also be able to tell if there’s a video on your screen and prompt you to ask questions about it. Gemini uses the video’s automatic captions to find answers — something you could already get it to do in a more roundabout way. Gemini will also take a similar cue if you’re looking at a PDF, but there’s a catch: you’ll need access to Google’s paid version,... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge Google is adding a bunch of new features to its Gemini AI, and one of the most powerful is a personalization option called “Gems” that allows users to create custom versions of the Gemini assistant with varying personalties. Gems lets you create iterations of chatbots that can help you with certain tasks and retain specific characteristics, kind of like making your own bot in Character.AI, the service that lets you talk to virtualized versions of popular characters and celebrities or even a fake psychiatrist. Google says you can make Gemini your gym buddy, sous-chef, coding partner, creative writing guide, or anything you can dream up. Gems feels similar to OpenAI’s GPT Store that lets you make customized ChatGPT chatbots. You can set up... Continue reading…

Move over Google Assistant; Google has a brand new personal AI assistant that it's much cooler and more useful than anything it did before. It's called Project Astra, and it's powered by Google's Gemini AI. Project Astra is an agent-type AI product that uses Gemini's multimodality to answer real-time questions about the world around you. It sounds a lot like OpenAI's new GPT-4o upgrade that ChatGPT just got. That's because it is. But Project Astra has at least one exciting advantage over ChatGPT that was obvious from the first demo we saw at Google I/O 2024. Continue reading... The post Project Astra is Google’s first true AI assistant appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $79 AirPods, $249 iPad 9, free smart bulbs, Lexar memory sale, 20% off Galaxy S24, more Today’s deals: $20 Apple AirTags, $34 Roku Streaming Stick 4K, $130 Beats Solo 3, $47 Canon printer, more Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $415+ free Today’s deals: $3 Alexa smart plugs, Peloton sale, $250 HP laptop, Sony XM5 headphones, more

During Google's I/O 2024 conference, the tech giant announced several new Gemini AI features coming to Gmail, Search, Shopping, and more. Here they are. To begin the conference, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the new Gemini 1.5 Pro now has a 2 million token context window, which is the amount of information the AI model can understand. With the previous version, it had 1 million tokens. Now, Google wants to deepen into two main features: Multimodality and long context, so it can understand more complex queries and help users with their everyday tasks, such as: Image source: Google Google Photos: You can Ask Photos with Gemini. So, the AI could help you find your car's license plate and even show how your daughter improved with swimming classes over the years. Gmail: Gemini can help you catch up with e-mails from your kid's school, such as upcoming events, what's going on with your child, and more. https://x.com/Google/status/1790430549649019123 Shopping: Gemini can help you return products you buy. You can show a photo of your Converse, and the assistant will find the invoice on your Gmail, contact the store and organize with UPS so you can return the shoes. Search: Google Search's AI-generate summaries, which are now named AI Overviews, are launching to everyone in the US this week. https://x.com/Google/status/1790440001156583712 Search Videos: Gemini breaks down video frame by frame so Search can identify your issue, and use the web to find relevant information. Summarize e-mails: Google is adding a new Summarize option to long thread emails so you can offer context and summarize a subject you're talking about with other people. https://x.com/Google/status/1790441491338264973 Google says these features are launching in the coming weeks, with even more to come. Story in development... Don't Miss: OpenAI debuts GPT-4o model, new desktop app, and more The post New Gemini AI features Google is adding to Gmail, Photos, and more appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Best Apple deals for May 2024 Best Echo Dot deals for May 2024 Today’s deals: $50 off new Beats Solo 4, $249 iPad 9th-Gen, $19 Roku Express, $180 ASUS laptop, more Best deals: Tech, laptops, TVs, and more sales

Google debuted its three newest generative AI models for media creation, Imagen3, Music AI Sandbox, and Veo, during Google I/O 2024. The tech giant says that the three newest AI tools are its best yet, offering even higher quality offerings compared to previous models. This is especially true for its new image creation tool, which Google claims can now understand the prompts that humans write even more clearly. https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1790434750592643331 This allows Imagen3 to create images that take everything about the prompt into account, including the smallest details. The generative AI model can also now create text more reliably than previous models like Imagen2, which launched in Google's chatbot back when it was still called Bard, and Google even claims that it works better than other image generation models out there. On the audio side, Google has been working with real life producers and musicians like Marc Rebillet to create a system that works for the artist, giving them the tools they need to succeed right in the Music AI Sandbox. https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1790435413682975043 According to the video, you can simply throw in a prompt, add in your own music if you want, and see what the AI does to customize it. But Music AI Sandbox and Imagen3 aren't the only generative AI that Google has been working on for media creation. The tech giant has also created a new video generation model called Veo, which Google says can really focus in on the smallest details, providing a great tool for video artists to utilize. https://twitter.com/Google/status/1790435689495945479 Google showed off some of the capabilities that Veo has, showing how it can build cinematic shots with just a few keywords in your prompt. The video quality is honestly astounding based on what we've seen so far, and it could open a lot of new doors for creators. All of these new tools will be available to developers as part of Google Labs, and the waitlist is now open for those who want to sign up. Google hasn't shared any wider plans to release of the new tools just yet. Hopefully, we'll learn more about their individual capabilities in the coming months. The post Google debuts three new generative AI models for media creation during Google I/O appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $3 Alexa smart plugs, Peloton sale, $250 HP laptop, Sony XM5 headphones, more Today’s deals: $89 Apple AirPods, $3.75 smart plugs, $89 robot vacuum, Samsung monitors, more Today’s deals: $50 off new Beats Solo 4, $249 iPad 9th-Gen, $19 Roku Express, $180 ASUS laptop, more Today’s deals: $179 AirPods Pro 2, Mattel toys, Kindles, Fitbit sale, $12.50 Matter smart plugs, more

Starting today, Google Search is going to feel a lot less like the search engine that you currently know and use, and more like the kinds of AI-centric platforms that are exploding around the web. Google Search head Liz Reid announced today that tons of new AI features are coming to Google's lucrative search engine, including AI Overviews -- Google-produced summarize of your search queries, de-emphasizing the classic list of blue links. These AI Overviews are rolling out in the US starting today, and coming to more than 1 billion people by year's end. What this means, specifically, is that Google will start automatically answering certain search queries in the US for everyone in the US. This process will begin over the coming days.  https://twitter.com/Google/status/1790438383128342722 Google describes this as Search "doing the Googling for you." At the same time, this is the beginning of a nightmare scenario for publishers, which will find their own links that Google Search surfaces pushed farther down the results page. If Google answers a query automatically, in other words, there would presumably be no need to scroll down the page and click a publisher's link. This has come as Google Search's ongoing updates have proven increasingly devastating for publishers, while rewarding sites that don't need the help from Google but get it anyway (Reddit, Quora, and Forbes). Don't Miss: Google is wading into EU politics, when it ought to focus on fixing its decaying search engine The post Google just beefed up Search with a ton of new AI features appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $179 AirPods Pro 2, $599 Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano laptop, COSORI air fryers, Bose sale, more Best Apple Watch deals for April 2024 Today’s deals: $50 off new Beats Solo 4, $249 iPad 9th-Gen, $19 Roku Express, $180 ASUS laptop, more Today’s deals: $179 AirPods Pro 2, Mattel toys, Kindles, Fitbit sale, $12.50 Matter smart plugs, more

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