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.
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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.
Windows 11’s Copilot AI just took its first step towards being an indispensable assistant for Android
The abilities you’ll gain include being able to use Copilot to read and send text messages on your Android device (via the PC, of course), or look up contact information.
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 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.
Microsoft’s OpenAI investment was triggered by Google fears, emails reveal
An internal email, titled “Thoughts on OpenAI,” between Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, CEO Satya Nadella, and co-founder Bill Gates reveals some of the high-level discussions around an investment opportunity in the months before Microsoft revealed the partnership.
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 Chrome will soon let you talk to Gemini right in the address bar
Google appears to be working on adding quick access to its AI chatbot Gemini to the drop-down menu that appears in your address bar. If you want to talk to the bot quickly you’ll be able to type in ‘@gemini’ and get instant access to the bot.
Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro can now hear
The model can now listen to uploaded audio files and churn out information from things like earnings calls or audio from videos without the need to refer to a written transcript.
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
Tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta have cut corners, ignored corporate policies and debated bending the law, according to an examination by The New York Times.
Google’s Experiment to Get AI Help Answering Gmails Sounds Great, Until You Think About Privacy
Sounds good, until you realize that, as Forbes puts it, the Gemini prompts themselves mean that Google’s AI has “has read your email, even if you haven’t.”
Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first
In the initial phase, the consortium will look at 56 roles likely to be eliminated by AI first. According to IBM these roles include 80 percent of the top 45 ICT job titles.
How Google lost ground in the AI race
Symptomatic of the Silicon Valley giant’s fumbled efforts over the past year to seize the lead in the use of generative AI — a technology that, by general agreement, Google played a central role in creating.
AI keeps going wrong. What if it can’t be fixed?
Such tools fail in one clear way: they aren’t reliable enough to be used widely and regularly. Hence the joke, echoed by OpenAI’s co-founder Sam Altman himself: AI is anything that doesn’t work yet.
How to Use Google Gemini to Summarize YouTube Videos
Gemini offers a solution for summarizing lengthy YouTube videos. With this extension, users can conveniently access quick summaries and save time. If you’re pressed for time and can’t watch a full video, Gemini provides a practical alternative. Find out more about this helpful feature and learn how to use it effectively.
How to use Gemini to create AI images in Google Slides
Gemini is a handy tool for adding relevant images quickly to Google Slides. Like any AI image generator, it requires specific prompts to generate the image you want.
You Can Now Use Gemini to Navigate With Google Maps Hands-Free
Now when you ask for directions Gemini will automatically start navigation with Google Maps.
Claude 3 Opus vs Gemini Advanced: A surprisingly close call
Claude 3 Opus gives you a very similar experience to Google Gemini Advanced. There are no plugins, there is no code interpreter, and they generate text at very similar speeds to each other.
Google’s AI can ingest multiple books. What will it do with all that data?
When Gemini 1.5 Pro rolls out fully, users will be able to dump in whole book series, codebases, entire legal case histories, or really anything they want. This Google model can ingest all this information quickly and then answer questions about the data.
How To Make Google Gemini’s AI Responses More Precise
In a recent release update for Gemini AI, Google has implemented an efficient way to alter bits of the generated replies.
8 Google invented modern AI. Here’s the inside story.
Eight names are listed as authors on “Attention Is All You Need,” a scientific paper written in the spring of 2017. They were all Google researchers, though by then one had left the company…
Gemini Advanced vs. Copilot Pro: which is the better deal?
Despite the wider availability of Microsoft Copilot Pro, Gemini Advanced may have a greater value proposition for many individuals.
Apple’s AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI
Bloomberg notes that it risks being a concession from Apple that its own generative AI technology is lagging behind its competitors.
Google’s AI chatbot has a new ‘address’, at least for now
Google has a history of owning easy-to-remember domain names for all their apps…Considering AI has become common terminology, owning ai.com seems like a smart move to lure to its own AI chatbot.
Why Walmart’s quick success in generative AI search should have Google worried
“Maybe when a retailer has a powerful generative AI engine on their platform, customers don’t feel the need to go on Google at all. Maybe they’re able to get to learn about what they need directly on the retailer’s platform.”
Google Integrates Gemini in Sheets
Whether it’s summarising spreadsheets, creating tables, formulating custom formulas, or explaining data in a simplified manner, Gemini is equipped to handle diverse data analysis requirements.
Google’s Gemini AI now refuses to answer election questions
Tuesday, Google confirmed to Reuters that those restrictions have kicked in. Election queries now tend to come back with the refusal: “I’m still learning how to answer this question. In the meantime, try Google Search.”
Gemini now lets you tune and modify responses with a prompt
When selecting (by highlighting) a part of Gemini’s response to your prompt, a pencil/sparkle icon appears to “Modify selected text.” This opens a box with Regenerate, Shorter, Longer, and Remove options, as well as an open text field.
Axios Explains: How to use ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini AI tools
Getting started using any of these tools is easy, but knowing when and how to get the best results from them can still be tricky.
Gemini is about to slide into your DMs
Adding the chatbot to your messaging app is one way to make it feel more like talking to a friend. Gemini in Messages is only available in English for now, and only in “certain markets.”
ChatGPT-4 vs Gemini Ultra identical prompt results comparison
GPT-4 is a leader in natural language processing, while Gemini Ultra stands out for its ability to manage complex tasks efficiently. Which is better?
Google explains Gemini’s ‘embarrassing’ AI pictures of diverse Nazis
“…over time, the model became way more cautious than we intended and refused to answer certain prompts entirely — wrongly interpreting some very anodyne prompts as sensitive…”
Google plans “Gemini Business” AI for Workspace users
Workspace customers will get “enterprise-grade data protections” and settings in the Google Workspace Admin console and that Workspace users can “use Gemini confidently at work” while “trusting that your conversations aren’t used to train Gemini models.”
AI Briefing: How Priceline and other e-commerce companies are approaching generative AI
“Priceline recently added more features for Penny, an AI travel assistant that debuted last June. When it first was launched, Penny could only help with finding accommodations, but now it can help find flights, car rentals and vacation packages…”
Problem solving across 100,633 lines of code | Gemini 1.5 Pro Demo
There are moments when AI takes your breath away. This is one of them.
Here’s everything you need to know about Gemini 1.5, Google’s newly updated AI model that hopes to challenge OpenAI
Gemini 1.5 promises to be faster and more efficient thanks to a specialization technique called “mixture of experts,” also known as MoE. Instead of running the entire model every time it receives a query, Gemini’s MoE can use just the relevant parts…
50 Funny Things To Ask Chatgpt and Google’s AI Chatbot
Who can’t use a little humour?
How to Access Google Gemini AI on iPhone
As of the time of writing, there is not a dedicated Gemini app for iPhone and iPad. Instead, it’s available in the official Google app.
Gemini Advanced is most impressive when it’s working with Google
“For more obviously “creative” multimodal requests — things that involve images, for example — Gemini has a long way to go…”
Google announces “Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5”
“Gemini 1.5 Pro comes with a standard 128,000 token context window. But starting today, a limited group of developers and enterprise customers can try it with a context window of up to 1 million tokens”
Don’t tell your AI anything personal, Google warns in new Gemini privacy notice
Google goes on to state that the collected information helps them provide, improve, and develop products, services, and machine learning technologies.
Google’s Gemini assistant is a fantastic and frustrating glimpse of the AI future
“I think it’s more useful than the regular Assistant by a mile & there’s a lot I like about it now…when Gemini comes up with something, like a recipe or a packing list, I have somewhere to put it. Gemini can export answers to Google Docs or Gmail…”
Google debuts more powerful “Ultra 1.0” AI model in rebranded “Gemini” chatbot
It’s still an AI assistant. It can write, code, and generate images. By default, it still uses the “Pro” model under the hood (and in the free version). But if you pay for Gemini Advanced, you get access to Gemini Ultra, its most complex & capable model.
Meta will label AI-generated content from OpenAI and Google on Facebook, Instagram
The move aims to enhance transparency on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads by informing users when the content they see is digitally synthesized media rather than an authentic photo or video.
Google is reportedly rebranding Bard to Gemini and plans to launch a dedicated app
Google appears to be having its Copilot moment and will rebrand its Bard generative AI services to Gemini. Which, yes, is the same name it uses for its most capable family of AI models.
Google’s Bard chatbot gets the Gemini Pro update globally
Google’s Bard chatbot is now powered by the Gemini Pro model globally with support for more than 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.
6 Google Bard prompts to try: AI-supercharge your workflows
“As powerful as Bard is, it can’t read your mind (at least, not yet), so you need to feed it the right questions and prompts to get it to behave how you want it to…”
Google’s Gemini Pro Beats GPT-4
Google’s Bard (Gemini Pro) has clinched the second position on the HuggingFace Chat Bot Arena Leaderboard, surpassing OpenAI’s GPT-4. (But not GPT-4 Turbo.)
Google Update Reveals AI Will Start Reading All Your Private Messages
Bard will analyze the private content of messages “to understand the context of your conversations, your tone, and your interests.” It will analyze the sentiment of your messages, “to tailor its responses to your mood and vibe.”
Federal Trade Commission Launches Inquiry Into A.I. Deals by Tech Giants
Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, while Amazon and Google have each committed billions of dollars to Anthropic, another leading A.I. start-up.
Google Chrome gains AI features, including a writing helper, theme creator, and tab organizer
The company announced today it’s soon adding a trio of new AI-powered features to Chrome for Mac and Windows, including a way to smartly organize your tabs, customize your theme, and get help when writing things on the web…
Google will pitch Bard Advanced as providing ‘complex, better responses’
At the start of December, Google said Gemini Ultra would launch in early 2024 and be available in “Bard Advanced.” When it launches, Google will position Bard Advanced as providing “complex, better responses.”
Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses
An artificial intelligence (AI) system trained to conduct medical interviews matched, or even surpassed, human doctors’ performance at conversing with simulated patients and listing possible diagnoses on the basis of the patients’ medical history.
AI in Google Search
Starting today, when you point your camera (or upload a photo or screenshot) and ask a question using the Google app, the new multisearch experience will show results with AI-powered insights that go beyond just visual matches.
Make no mistake—AI is owned by Big Tech
“Put simply, in the context of the current paradigm of building larger- and larger-scale AI systems, there is no AI without Big Tech. With vanishingly few exceptions, every startup, new entrant, and even AI research lab is dependent on these firms.”
Transforming Your Gmail and Docs with Google Bard: A Productivity Boost
“Bard’s ability to process and generate natural language makes it a valuable tool for enhancing the productivity of Gmail and Google Docs users.”
How to Brainstorm Ideas with Google Bard
Clearly identify the specific goals you aim to achieve. Having a clear objective will help direct Bard’s responses and ensure that your brainstorming session remains focused.
I pitted Google Bard with Gemini Pro vs ChatGPT — here’s the winner
“The two chatbots came out fairly evenly matched with three ties out of seven questions. Even when I gave one a victory on a question it was usually very narrow. The only exception was on programming as Bard flat out refused to try.”
Round 2: We test the new Gemini-powered Bard against ChatGPT
“This time around, we decided to compare the new Gemini-powered Bard to both ChatGPT-3.5—for an apples-to-apples comparison of both companies’ current “free” AI assistant products—and ChatGPT-4 Turbo…”
Google just launched a new AI, and has already admitted at least one demo wasn’t real
Google admitted when asked for comment that the video demo didn’t happen in real time with spoken prompts but instead used still image frames from raw footage and then wrote out text prompts to which Gemini to responded.
Google’s Bard chatbot is getting way better thanks to Gemini
Bard is now running Gemini Pro, the middle tier of the Gemini series.
Google launches Gemini—a powerful AI model it says can surpass GPT-4
Google claims that the largest version of Gemini exceeds “current state-of-the-art results on 30 of the 32 widely used academic benchmarks used in large language model (LLM) research and development.”
Bard can now watch YouTube videos for you
The bot’s YouTube integration is getting a handy upgrade so it can analyze individual videos to surface specific information for you — like key points or recipe ingredients — without ever pressing play. That’s potentially a hugely useful tool.
Despite its big OpenAI push, Microsoft’s Bing search market share decreases year-over-year
Bing’s market share actually decreased half a percent year-over-year in the United States, from 7.4% to 6.9%, Google’s share increased to 88% up from 86.7% last year, taking a little bit of search volume from virtually every other noticeable player.
URGENT: Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration
Indirect Prompt Injection attacks via Emails or Google Docs are interesting threats, because these can be delivered to users without their consent.
Imagine an attacker force-sharing Google Docs with victims!
Google wants AI chatbot Bard to help it reach billions of users
Google’s experimental chatbot Bard is a path to developing another product with two billion users, a director said on Thursday at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York
The Best Practices for Using Google Bard
While its capabilities are impressive, maximizing its potential requires a strategic approach and adherence to certain best practices. Embracing these guidelines will empower you to harness Bard’s true potential and achieve your desired outcomes.
Australian academics apologise for false AI-generated allegations against big four consultancy firms
The original submission falsely accused KPMG of being complicit in a “KPMG 7-Eleven wage theft scandal” that led to the resignation of several partners.
Google’s Bard chatbot now responds in real time — and you can shut it up mid-sentence
Google’s Bard AI chatbot can now reply to your questions in real time, as spotted earlier by 9to5Google. Bard previously only sent a response when it was complete, but now you can get a glimpse at your answer as it’s getting generated.
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft not transparent with their AI models: Stanford
Stanford university says that these prominent AI companies are becoming less transparent as their models become more powerful.
Google Bard, Bing Chat Provide Inaccurate Report On Israel-Hamas Conflict
Lately, Google Bard and Microsoft Bing Chat have been catching flak for providing erroneous reports on the Israel-Hamas conflict. When asked basic questions about the Israel-Hamas conflict, both Bard and Bing Chat inaccurately claimed that there is a ceasefire in place.
The environmental impact of the AI revolution is starting to come into focus
AI already accounted for 10 to 15 percent of Google’s electricity consumption in 2021. And the company’s AI ambitions have grown big time since then.
Google might have a great idea for smart home automation—if it sticks to it
Google Home can start condensing all the notifications from cameras, sensors, and other devices into a streamlined summary, patched together by generative AI, and which you can respond to with natural language.
Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search
The age of generative AI threatens to sprinkle epistemological sand into the gears of web search by fooling algorithms designed for a time when the web was mostly written by humans.
Google is launching a generative AI-enhanced version of Assistant
Google says its new AI-enhanced Assistant with Bard can do things like help plan your next trip, find details in your email inbox, and even create a grocery list. Big promises – but can they deliver?
Google Home’s new AI feature helps you create custom Routines
With the help of generative AI, “help me script” for Google Home will generate the code for you. You can then easily copy, paste and activate that code in the script editor. And you can always modify it later if you need to.
Google Bard readies ‘Memory’ to adapt to important details about you
It seems Google is preparing a new way for Bard to remember important details about you and your preferences.
Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI
This means that if a person used Bard to ask it a question then shared the link with a designated third-party, say, their spouse, friend or business partner, the conversation accessible at that link could in turn be scraped by Google’s crawler and show up publicly, to the entire world, in its Search Results.
The AI Chatbot Assistants Are Here. Do We Actually Want Them?
Maybe we really are on the cusp of a total change to the way we interact with machines and the arrival of the long-anticipated era of truly conversational computing is imminent
Google’s AI assistant can now read your emails, plan trips, “double-check” answers
Notably, Bard’s new “double-check button” has been designed to provide a counter against confabulations where Bard produces inaccurate information or makes things up (a concept often called “hallucinations” in the AI field). It’s a public admission that Bard often lacks accuracy and isn’t a dependable factual reference.
How to create emails in Gmail with Google Bard
Enter a prompt that describes the email you want Bard to write. For example, you could enter a prompt like “Write a thank-you email to my colleague for helping me with the project,” or “Write a formal email to my manager requesting a vacation.”
Video: The ‘Big Three’ AI chatbots
Each of the ‘Big Three’ AI chatbots – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing Chat and Google’s Bard – have theirs strengths and weaknesses. In my forthcoming book, Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots, I compare their capabilities. Which one is best for you? Watch the video and find out: Learn more about Getting Started with […]
NEW BOOK: “Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI chatbots”
Microsoft has announced ‘Windows Copilot’ will integrate ChatGPT-like functionality into its Windows 11 operating system. It’s vital for every computer user to have an understanding of how AI chatbots work – and how best to put them to work.
DeepMind discovers that AI large language models can optimize their own prompts
In a new paper, researchers from DeepMind propose a new way: Optimization by PROmpting (OPRO), a method that uses AI large language models (LLM) as optimizers. The unique aspect of this approach is that the optimization task is defined in natural language rather than through formal mathematical definitions.
Bing Chat comes to Chrome!
Further expanding its reach, Microsoft has recently incorporated support for Bing Chat on desktops for all Google Chrome users. Testing for compatibility with Apple’s Safari browser, as well as mobile versions of Chrome and Safari, is currently underway.
Windows Copilot News 