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      Google at I/O 2023: We’ve been doing AI since before it was cool

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Saturday, 20 May, 2023 - 11:17 · 1 minute

    Google CEO Sundar Pichai explains some of the company's many new AI models.

    Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai explains some of the company's many new AI models. (credit: Google)

    That Google I/O show sure was something, wasn't it? It was a rip-roaring two hours of nonstop AI talk without a break. Bard, Palm, Duet, Unicorn, Gecko, Gemini, Tailwind, Oter—there were so many cryptic AI code names thrown around it was hard to keep track of what Google was talking about. A glossary really would have helped. The highlight was, of course, the hardware, but even that was talked about as an AI delivery system.

    Google is in the midst of a total panic over the rise of OpenAI and its flagship product, ChatGPT, which has excited Wall Street and has the potential to steal some queries people would normally type into Google.com. It's an embarrassing situation for Google, especially for its CEO Sundar Pichai, who has been pitching an "AI first" mantra for about seven years now and doesn't have much to show for it. Google has been trying to get consumers excited about AI for years, but people only seemed to start caring once someone other than Google took a swing at it.

    Even more embarrassing is that the rise of ChatGPT was built on Google's technology. The "T" in "ChatGPT" stands for "transformer," a neural network technique Google invented in 2017 and never commercialized. OpenAI took Google's public research, built a product around it, and now uses that product to threaten Google.

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      The AI race heats up: Google announces PaLM 2, its answer to GPT-4

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 11 May, 2023 - 19:20

    The Google PaLM 2 logo.

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    On Wednesday, Google introduced PaLM 2 , a family of foundational language models comparable to OpenAI's GPT-4 . At its Google I/O event in Mountain View, California, Google revealed that it already uses PaLM 2 to power 25 products, including its Bard conversational AI assistant.

    As a family of large language models (LLMs), PaLM 2 has been trained on an enormous volume of data and does next-word prediction, which outputs the most likely text after a prompt input by humans. PaLM stands for "Pathways Language Model," and " Pathways " is a machine-learning technique created at Google. PaLM 2 follows up on the original PaLM , which Google announced in April 2022.

    According to Google, PaLM 2 supports over 100 languages and can perform "reasoning," code generation, and multi-lingual translation. During his 2023 Google I/O keynote, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that PaLM 2 comes in four sizes: Gecko, Otter, Bison, Unicorn. Gecko is the smallest and can reportedly run on a mobile device. Aside from Bard, PaLM 2 is behind AI features in Docs, Sheets, and Slides.

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      Tailwind : l’expérience de Google pour avoir sa petite IA « à soi »

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 11 May, 2023 - 13:56

    Tailwind

    C'est une « expérience » selon Google. Aura-t-elle de l'avenir ? En tout cas, l'entreprise américaine en a parlé lors de sa conférence I/O. Tailwind, c'est son nom, se présente comme un carnet de notes boosté à l'IA, capable de travailler que sur ses documents et ses sources. [Lire la suite]

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      Google I/O 2023 : tout pour l’IA, les annonces à retenir

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Thursday, 11 May, 2023 - 10:00

    google-io-23-158x105.jpg Google I/O 2023

    Comme prévu, l'intelligence artificielle a occupé une place importante lors de la conférence I/O 2023. Gmail, Maps, Photos, PaLM 2... Google a multiplié les annonces.

    Google I/O 2023 : tout pour l’IA, les annonces à retenir

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      Google jumps into the AI coding assistant fray with Codey and Studio Bot

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 10 May, 2023 - 22:47

    A mock-up made by Google depicting an AI assistant inside Android Studio

    Enlarge / Android Studio will get a dedicated helper chatbot called Studio Bot. (credit: Google )

    During today's I/O presentation, Google announced Studio Bot, an AI assistant that Android developers can use to help write and debug code.

    Built on Codey and the revised PaLM 2 large language model, Studio Bot is only available to US developers for now and is in its "very early days," Google said. It's part of Android Studio, Google's official integrated development environment (IDE) for Android devs.

    This is distinct from another Codey-based project that is meant to compete directly with GitHub's Copilot at completing and generating in-line code.

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      Bard, Pixel 7a, Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet : le récap’ des annonces majeures de Google I/O 2023

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 10 May, 2023 - 20:46

    Google IO

    La conférence I/O de 2023 a eu lieu le 10 mai. Google a profité de l'occasion pour officialiser deux nouveaux smartphones (Pixel 7a et Pixel Fold), une tablette (Pixel Tablet). L'entreprise a aussi donné des nouvelles d'Android 14 et de son chatbot Bard, qu'il déploie de plus en plus dans son écosystème. [Lire la suite]

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      Google’s ChatGPT-killer is now open to everyone, packing new features

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 10 May, 2023 - 20:16

    The Google Bard logo at Google I/O

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    At Wednesday's Google I/O conference, Google announced wide availability of its ChatGPT-like AI assistant, Bard , in over 180 countries with no waitlist. It also announced updates such as support for Japanese and Korean, visual responses to queries, integration with Google services, and add-ons that will extend Bard's capabilities.

    Similar to how OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT with GPT-4 after its launch, Bard is getting an upgrade under the hood. Google says that some of Bard's recent enhancements are powered by Google's new PaLM 2 , a family of foundational large language models (LLMs) that have enabled " advanced math and reasoning skills " and better coding capabilities. Previously, Bard used Google's LaMDA AI model.

    Google plans to add Google Lens integration to Bard, which will allow users to include photos and images in their prompts. On the Bard demo page, Google shows an example of uploading a photo of dogs and asking Bard to “write a funny caption about these two." Reportedly, Bard will analyze the photo, detect the dog breeds, and draft some amusing captions on demand.

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      Google Pixel Fold: The thinnest foldable (with the biggest battery) in the US

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 10 May, 2023 - 19:01 · 1 minute

    Following Google's early half-announcement that the Pixel Fold is a real phone, Google finally posted the full details of the upcoming foldable today during the company's I/O conference. Google's first foldable smartphone will cost $1,799, and it's up for preorder now. Google says the phone is shipping sometime next month.

    First, let's talk about the very interesting dimensions of the Pixel Fold. The official specs have the phone at 139.7×79.5×12.1 mm when folded and 139.7×158.7×5.8 mm when open. Just look at the lineup of Pixel phones in the gallery above. The Fold is both the shortest and widest phone in the lineup. That 5.8 mm thickness for each half is very thin, easily besting the 6.3-mm-thick Galaxy Z Fold 4 and the Oppo Find N2, which is 7.4 mm thick.

    Google calls this the thinnest foldable on the market. That's true for the US, but internationally, you can find the Huawei Mate X3 at 5.3 mm for each half or the 5.4-mm-per-half Xiaomi Fold 2 . We're usually not fans of the old-school smartphone thinness wars, but for foldables, which are mini tablets you're supposed to carry in a pocket, bulk can be a real problem. Google is pitching this device as being pocket-friendly. At 283 g, though, it seems like it will weigh a lot compared to the Fold 4 (263 g) or the Oppo Find N2 (an impressive 233 g).

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      Google’s Pixel Tablet looks just like a smart display, so why isn’t it one?

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 10 May, 2023 - 19:00 · 1 minute

    The Pixel Tablet was announced one year ago at Google I/O 2022 , then a second time at the Pixel 7's launch event , and now it's back on stage for a third time at Google I/O 2023. This time, it's getting a full spec sheet and a price. The Pixel Tablet is officially in iPad territory at $499, and that's with the fancy magnetic speaker dock included in the box. It's going up for preorder today, and will ship sometime next month.

    Since it's been a year, here is a quick recap: This is Google's first self-branded Android tablet in eight years. The Pixel Tablet release follows up the company's rebooted Android tablet strategy, which started with Android 12L in 2022, and has continued with pretty comprehensive tablet updates to most of Google's apps.

    For specs, we have a 10.95-inch, 60 Hz, 2560×1600 LCD, the Google Tensor G2 SoC (same as the Pixel phones, that's an Arm X1 chip), 8GB of RAM, 128GB or 256GB of storage, and a 27 watt-hour battery. The cameras seem like an afterthought, with only an 8 MP sensor on the front and back. There's a fingerprint reader included in the power button, and while there's no official stylus, the tablet has USI 2.0 compatibility . The body is aluminum, with a "nano ceramic coating" that Google says is "inspired by porcelain."

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