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      Android’s AI era includes eavesdropping on phone calls, warning you about scams

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 2 days ago - 19:57

    • The "ask this PDF" feature.

    Google's " code red " demands that AI be part of every single Google product and that includes Android. At Google I/O, the company announced a "multi-year journey to reimagine Android with AI at the core" but only demoed a few minor AI enhancements.

    Gemini can soon be brought up via the power button as an overlay panel, where it will have access to whatever's on your screen. The demo involved opening a PDF in Android's PDF reader, summarizing it, and answering questions based on the content. You can do something similar with a YouTube video. The demo also showed generating images based on a text prompt and then sending those images in a text message. Another demo involved Gemini understanding a chat log and suggesting future actions.

    Talkback, Android's system for low-vision users, will soon be able to use AI to describe images that lack descriptive text.

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      Vous n’avez rien suivi à la Google I/O ? Le résumé de toutes les annonces est dans cet article

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · 2 days ago - 19:52

    Numerama est en direct de Mountain View pour la Google I/O, la grande conférence annuelle de Google. L'édition 2024 a été dédiée à l'intelligence artificielle, avec des mises à jour majeures de Gemini et la transformation du moteur de recherche Google. Vous trouverez dans cet article les grandes annonces de Google.

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      Google strikes back at OpenAI with “Project Astra” AI agent prototype

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 2 days ago - 19:11 · 1 minute

    A video still of Project Astra demo at the Google I/O conference keynote in Mountain View on May 14, 2024.

    Enlarge / A video still of Project Astra demo at the Google I/O conference keynote in Mountain View on May 14, 2024. (credit: Google)

    Just one day after OpenAI revealed GPT-4o , which it bills as being able to understand what's taking place in a video feed and converse about it, Google announced Project Astra , a research prototype that features similar video comprehension capabilities. It was announced by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on Tuesday at the Google I/O conference keynote in Mountain View.

    Hassabis called Astra "a universal agent helpful in everyday life." During a demonstration, the research model showcased its capabilities by identifying sound-producing objects, providing creative alliterations, explaining code on a monitor, and locating misplaced items. 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.

    Google says that Astra uses the camera and microphone on a user's device to provide assistance in everyday life. By continuously processing and encoding video frames and speech input, Astra creates a timeline of events and caches the information for quick recall. The company says that this enables the AI to identify objects, answer questions, and remember things it has seen that are no longer in the camera's frame.

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      Google is “reimagining” search in “the Gemini era” with improved AI options

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 2 days ago - 18:33

    Search for the best pilates studioes in Boston

    Enlarge / You asked for the best, and this is the Gemini AI's answer. (credit: Google)

    Search is still important to Google, but soon it will change. At its all-in-one AI Google I/O event Tuesday, the company introduced a host of AI-enabled features coming to Google Search at various points in the near future, which will "do more for you than you ever imagined."

    "Google will do the Googling for you," said Liz Reid, Google's head of Search.

    It's not AI in every search, but it will seemingly be hard to avoid a lot of offers to help you find, plan, and brainstorm things. "AI Overviews," the successor to the Search Generative Experience , will provide summary answers to questions, along with links to sources. You can also soon submit a video as a search query, perhaps to identify objects or provide your own prompts by voice.

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      Google riposte à Sora d’OpenAI avec Veo pour générer des vidéos artificielles

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · 2 days ago - 18:10

    Veo

    Lors de la conférence I/O, Google a présenté Veo, un outil d'intelligence artificielle spécialisé dans la génération de vidéos. Un projet annoncé quelques mois après celui d'OpenAI (Sora).

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      AI in Gmail will sift through emails, provide search summaries, send emails

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 2 days ago - 17:44 · 1 minute

    • AI in Gmail summarizes recent emails. [credit: Google ]

    Google's Gemini AI often just feels like a chatbot built into a text-input field, but you can really start to do special things when you give it access to a ton of data. Gemini in Gmail will soon be able to search through your entire backlog of emails and show a summary in a sidebar.

    That's simple to describe but solves a huge problem with email: even searching brings up a list of email subjects, and you have to click-through to each one just to read it. Having an AI sift through a bunch of emails and provide a summary sounds like a huge time saver and something you can't do with any other interface.

    Google's one-minute demo of this feature showed a big blue Gemini button at the top right of the Gmail web app. Tapping it opens the normal chatbot sidebar you can type in. 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. In the last second of the demo, the user types, "Reply saying I want to volunteer for the parent's group event," hits "enter," and then the chatbot instantly, without confirmation, sends an email.

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      Google répond à OpenAI avec Project Astra, son assistant futuriste capable de parler et de voir

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · 2 days ago - 17:33

    Développé par Google DeepMind, « Project Astra » est une démonstration du futur des assistants intelligents. L'objectif de Google est de concevoir un outil multimodal capable d'écrire, de parler et de voir. Certaines fonctions seront intégrées à l'app Gemini.

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      C’est la fin des recherches Google que nous connaissons

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · 2 days ago - 17:28

    Après un an de test aux États-Unis, Google étend à tous les utilisateurs américains la fonction « AI Overviews », qui résume la première page des résultats de son moteur de recherche avec l'intelligence artificielle. Les sites web, anciennement mis en avant, sont relégués à la seconde place.

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      EN DIRECT – Google I/O : quel avenir pour Gemini, Android et les services à l’ère de l’IA ?

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · 2 days ago - 16:35

    Numerama est en direct de Mountain View pour la Google I/O, la grande conférence annuelle de Google. L'édition 2024 devrait être dédiée à l'intelligence artificielle, avec des mises à jour majeures de Gemini et la transformation du moteur de recherche. Dans ce live blog, vous trouverez les annonces commentées en temps réel.