10 Crazy AI Announcements from Google I/O 2023
Sundar Pichai kickstarted the Google I/O keynote with “AI is having a very busy year”, which made me excited to watch the rest of it because I was sure that Google is going to come back stronger in the AI game against OpenAI. Every feature or AI solution that they released is just mindblowing.
So, here is a quick recap of all the crazy AI announcements that Google has just created.
- Help Me Write — Gmail
The necessity for efficient and effective communication has grown as the world becomes increasingly digital. People are constantly seeking ways to reduce the amount of time they spend writing emails. The feature known as “Help Me Write” employs AI to create email drafts that correspond to a user’s input.
This useful function uses artificial intelligence to suggest pertinent phrases and sentences as you type. But its talents go beyond that; it can even suggest whole paragraphs to help you make your argument clearly and concisely.
2. Magic Eraser & Magic Editor in Google Photos
Like the name suggests it is pure magic, it is a simple editing tool that you can use to remove objects from the photos, be it a photobomber, unwanted objects, or background. Coupled with Magic Editor, another AI tool. You can edit pictures like never before, move, delete, and even add a non-existent object to the picture
“Magic Eraser,” one of the photo-editing tools that Google Pixel already had, This feature is now available on other Android and iOS smartphones. It won’t be free, though. Google revealed today that Google One members in addition to current Pixel owners will now have access to the well-known feature that utilizes AI to remove undesired stuff from photographs.
3. Bard + Search
AI-Assisted Search. Although it is a no-brainer. Up until now, when we search we used to glance at all the articles that would come up when searched. However, with Bard AI integrated into the search. Now search becomes more conversational and will have a human tone. Although there is a lot of debate on how Search Ads, Display ads and SEO would work in this case.
4. Bard + Google Tools
Bard is now integrated with Google tools like Docs and Sheets, which means it can generate content and tables, and automatically add them to these apps. For coders, Bard also added 20 new programming languages and citations for understanding code generation. The export button can also export and run code starting with Python. The biggest applause though, came from Bard’s introduction of “dark mode.”
5. Bard + Adobe Firefly
Google is incorporating Adobe’s Firefly AI’s image generator into Bard. Back in March, Adobe announced that it, too, would be jumping into the generative AI pool alongside the likes of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other tech industry heavyweights with the release of Adobe Firefly, a suite of AI features. Available across Adobe’s product lineup including Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro, Firefly is designed to eliminate much of the drudge work associated with modern photo and video editing. Adobe and Google jointly announced during the 2023 I/O event that both Firefly and the Express graphics suite will soon be incorporated into Bard, allowing users to generate, edit and share AI images directly from the chatbot’s command line.
According to a release from the company, users will be able to generate an image with Firefly, then edit and modify it using Adobe Express assets, fonts, and templates within the Bard platform directly — even post to social media once it’s ready. Those generated images will reportedly be of the same high quality that Firefly beta users are already accustomed to as they are all being created from the same database of Adobe Stock images, openly licensed and public domain content.
6. Med PaLM2 LLM
Med-PaLM 2 harnesses the power of Google’s LLMs, aligned to the medical domain to more accurately and safely answer medical questions. As a result, Med-PaLM 2 was the first LLM to perform at an “expert” test-taker level performance on the MedQA dataset of US Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)-style questions, reaching 85%+ accuracy, and it was the first AI system to reach a passing score on the MedMCQA dataset comprising Indian AIIMS and NEET medical examination questions, scoring 72.3%.
7. Universal Translator
Google is testing a powerful new translation service that redubs video in a new language while also synchronizing the speaker’s lips with words they never spoke. It could be very useful for a lot of reasons, but the company was upfront about the possibility of abuse and the steps taken to prevent it.
The “experimental” service takes an input video, in this case, a lecture from an online course originally recorded in English transcribes the speech, translates it, regenerates the speech (matching style and tone) in that language, and then edits the video so that the speaker’s lips more closely match the new audio.
8. Gemini Foundational Model
Google’s new foundational model, is expected to outperform ChatGPT and Bing AI with its unique features. Gemini is a type of multimodal model that has the ability to comprehend and produce text, code, and images. This distinguishes it from ChatGPT, which is solely a text-based model. Gemini’s ability to understand and generate text, code, and images makes it ideal for various applications, including developing a new kind of AI-powered chatbot that can comprehend and respond to both text and images. In contrast, while Bing offers a separate link for image creation, its AI chatbot is limited to text-only responses within the chatbox.
Gemini’s capabilities extend beyond multimodality. It is also said to come with memory and planning capabilities, which means that it could be used to create new types of AI-powered applications that are not possible with ChatGPT. A potential use of Gemini could be in developing an AI-based personal assistant that has the ability to recall your choices and assist you in planning your daily routine.
The new language model, Gemini, is expected to revolutionize AI-powered applications and products, making them more efficient and effective than ever before. With its unique features and capabilities, it is poised to outperform its predecessors, ChatGPT and BingAI, and open up new possibilities in AI research and development.
9. Vextex AI
Vertex AI is a unified artificial intelligence platform that offers all of Google’s cloud services under one roof. With Vertex AI, you can build ML models or deploy and scale them easily using pre-trained and custom tooling. When you develop ML solutions on Vertex AI, you can leverage AutoML and other advanced ML components to greatly enhance productivity and scalability. Google also focused to make Vertex AI a friendly platform for newbies and a time-saving solution for experts. That’s the reason it can train models easily and requires 80% fewer lines of coding.
10. Google Maps Immersive View
The immersive view in Google Maps is an entirely new way to explore a place — letting you feel like you’re right there, even before you visit. Using advances in AI and computer vision, immersive view fuses billions of Street View and aerial images to create a rich, digital model of the world. And it layers helpful information on top like the weather, traffic, and how busy a place is.
To create these true-to-life scenes, Google uses neural radiance fields (NeRF), an advanced AI technique, that transforms ordinary pictures into 3D representations. With NeRF, Maps can accurately recreate the full context of a place including its lighting, the texture of materials, and what’s in the background. All of this allows you to see if a bar’s moody lighting is the right vibe for a date night or if the views at a cafe make it the ideal spot for lunch with friends.
The immersive view in Google Maps starts rolling out today in London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Tokyo. And in the coming months, it’ll launch in even more cities, including Amsterdam, Dublin, Florence, and Venice.
These are some of the key announcements in the Google I/O keynote, which makes me feel that Google is back into its game and each announcement and feature is an amazing innovation that Google has been working on these days
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