I Used Google Gemini to Write a Week’s Worth of Emails and Texts, Here’s How It Went
“For now, Gemini feels unfinished compared to other AI models, but I’m glad it texted me.”
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The AI upgrade cycle is here
You can be sure that Apple, Microsoft, Google, and others are going to continue to pack their operating systems with new AI features that require better hardware.
Google Gemini, explained
Another explainer – this one from The Verge – because Google has gotten lost in the weeds of product naming.
Google is working on a Recall-like feature for Chromebooks, too
“I think there’s something there in terms of screen capture in a way that obviously doesn’t feel creepy and feels like the user’s in control.”
Gemini cheat sheet: Google’s confusing AI jargon decoded
Gemini is analogous to not only ChatGPT but also the GPT family of language models. Google confusingly uses the same name for both products, so you’ll often have to guess the meaning from context.
Google makes adjustments to AI Overviews after a rocky rollout
The incorrect answers are the result of “misinterpreting queries, misinterpreting a nuance of language on the web, or not having a lot of great information available.”
Chromebook Plus laptops are getting Google Gemini
Chromebook Plus laptops will support new features like Google’s “Help me write” tool and the ability to make custom wallpaper with generative AI. Magic Editor on Google Photos is coming to Chromebook Plus, too.
Gemini is the new Google+
“Google and the other companies chasing this AI fantasy are desperate to have us see these systems as a life-changing leap forward, but it’s critically important for us to remain aware of the very real minuses that come with this latest shiny plus.”
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good
It’s actually pretty nice, showing only the traditional 10 blue links, giving you a clean (well, other than the ads), uncluttered results page that looks like it’s from 2011.
Google’s “AI Overview” can give false, misleading, and dangerous answers
These jokey posts from random Internet users probably wouldn’t be among the first answers someone saw when clicking through a list of web links. But with AI Overviews, those trolls were integrated into the authoritative-sounding data summary.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web
“If there are areas where we feel like we haven’t fully gotten it right, we are careful about rolling it out.”
Google plans to reuse heat after expanding a data center for AI
Google will drop €1 billion to expand its data center in Finland…It includes plans to reuse heat from the data center to warm nearby homes, schools, and public buildings.
Blink and you missed it: Google has a new pair of prototype AR glasses
With Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses proving to be the best AI wearable so far, beating out Rabbit and Humane for utility despite having no screen, it’s not surprising that Google might want to revive its glasses ambitions.
Google knows where you left your glasses
Now, with this and the rest of the AI advances it showed at its I/O conference, the company must quickly turn its cool demos into useful tools at scale.
Google makes its AI way faster with Gemini Flash
Gemini 1.5 Flash might be a better option for real-time responses to customers or fast image generation, while Gemini 1.5 Pro could read and summarize research papers.
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down
This is nothing short of a full-stack AI-ification of search. Google is using its Gemini AI to figure out what you’re asking about, whether you’re typing, speaking, taking a picture, or shooting a video.
Google’s Gemini AI is getting a chatty new voice mode
Gemini Live will enable two-way spoken conversation with the chatbot, smart assistant capabilities, and vision features — a lot like what OpenAI is working on for ChatGPT.
Google will let you create personalized AI chatbots
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.
AI in Gmail will sift through emails, provide search summaries, send emails
Asking for a summary of emails from a certain contact will get you a bullet-point list of what has been happening, with a list of “sources” at the bottom that will jump you right to a certain email.
Google is building Gemini Nano AI right into Chrome
The integration will let you do things like generate product reviews, social media posts, and other blurbs directly within Chrome.
Google’s Gemini AI is coming to the sidebar in Docs, Drive, Gmail, and more
Google users have long been trying to hack Gemini to do complicated, multi-app things: send an email based on the data they’re looking at in Sheets or add a reminder to respond to the email they were currently looking at.
Google strikes back at OpenAI with “Project Astra” AI agent prototype
The AI assistant also exhibited its potential in wearable devices, such as smart glasses, where it could analyze diagrams, suggest improvements, and generate witty responses to visual prompts.
5 AI Prompts For Educators Using ChatGPT And Google Gemini
AI-savvy teachers are armed with the power of carefully crafted prompts for tools such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini. These innovators are quietly revolutionizing their classrooms.
Battle of the AI bots: Copilot vs ChatGPT vs Gemini
Find out how these AI engines performed with “a free and easy game idea for a 5-year-old’s birthday party,” “a new smartphone app idea that’s likely to appeal to a lot of people, complete with a name,” and “tell me how to reset macOS and what I need to bear in mind before I do”.
Google’s medical AI destroys GPT’s benchmark and outperforms doctors
Med-Gemini was tested on 14 medical benchmarks and established a new state-of-the-art (SoTA) performance on 10, surpassing the GPT-4 model family on every benchmark where a comparison could be made.
Gemini mobile app availability worldwide
Your “Gemini mobile app” may be any of the following:
On Android: the Gemini app, including as your mobile assistant
On iOS: the Gemini tab in the Google app
Google releases two new free resources to help you optimize your AI prompts
The company last week unveiled a new blog series with tips, tricks, and suggestions on how you can get the most out of Gemini for Google Workspace. You can apply the advice to almost any AI chatbot.
Google says running AI models on phones is a huge RAM hog
Unlike an app, which can be loaded and unloaded as you use it, running something like Gemini Nano could mean permanently losing what is apparently a big chunk of system memory.
Google will pump more than $100B into AI, says DeepMind boss
Google DeepMind chief Hassabis didn’t specify how exactly Google would be spending that $100 billion or more, nor how quickly it would spend it, but he did insist that the Chocolate Factory’s processing prowess surpasses Microsoft’s – or anyone else’s.
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