Google I/O 2024 - Lens Update, Gemini 1.5 Flash, AI Video Generation & More [Android News Byte]

Google held their annual developer conference yesterday and AI looks to be the focus again this year.

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Google I/O, the company's developer conference, kicked off the week with their big keynote and in it we learned about a lot of new features and services that the company has been working on.

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Some of the major announcements include an updated Google Lens app that allows you to perform a search with your voice using the video camera on our smartphone.

The example they showed had a record player that skipped wildly when the needle is placed on a specific part of the record.
And the person pointed their phone at it, showed needle skipping wildly, and then asked why it is happening.

An interesting idea. . .but one that could be entirely useless if the AI model isn't able to detect the context of the question.

Another new feature shown off this week is one called Ask Photos. The idea works by allowing Gemini to index all of your photos. . .and then analyze and categorize them in such detail that you can ask an AI to find something in your collection.

Google Gemini has also received a big update to version 1.5 Flash. It's said this new update should be just as powerful as Gemini 1.5 Pro. . .however, the Flash version has been optimized for "narrow, high-frequency, low-latency" tasks.

Which should help the AI assistant respond faster and with less overhead to compute the answer.

The base version of Gemini 1.5 also received an update this week that is claimed to improve the AI model's ability to translate, reason, and even code. This version has also been updated to double the amount of information it can take in, from 1 million tokens to 2 million.

If you use Google Workspace then you will be getting access to Gemini 1.5 Pro from within the sidebar of Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, and Gmail.

This has already rolled out to some early testers but Google has said it will be available to all customers next month.

Another interesting new project revealed this week is called Astra. This is a multimodal AI assistant that Google hopes will be able to transition into a general virtual assistant for the user. It has the ability to analyze what you show it through the camera to help you remember where things are as well as execute some tasks for you.

The project looks to be in its early stages, but I'm reading that it actually powered a number of the demos that Google showed off this week.

Sora has made headlines this year with the first ever music video this year, but Google has been working on their own AI video generator called Veo.

These videos can be created based on a variety of styles including aerial shots or some timelapse footage. But the major feature seems to be the ability to tweak the output with more prompts from the user.

They have said this has already been made available for use in YouTube, but only a limited number of creators can use it right now.

Customizable chatbots seem to be quite popular among the AI industry as it's been one product that has actually been useful. OpenAI calls these GPTs and Google has said they will be calling theirs, Gems.

Gemini Advanced subscribers will have access to Gems and will be able to instruct the custom Gemini AI chatbot to respond in certain ways.

Another new update to Google's AI model is called Gemini Live, and its goal is to make voice chats with Gemini feel more natural.

The AI assistant will be programmed to have more of a personality, you will be able to interrupt it if you change your mind, and you will be able to ask it to watch through your smartphone camera so the AI can gather context about what you're asking about.

Gemini is also being updated to access data from your Google Calendar and Keep accounts, which can help to keep the AI model informed of future appointments or reminders.

Devices with Gemini Nano support will be able to enable a feature that will listen in on your audio conversations. Then, if the AI detects a common scammer conversation pattern, then a alert will sound to warn you and instruct you to hang up the phone.

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