Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Google plans to add a section called Perspectives to search results, with information from individual users, featuring YouTube videos, Reddit comments, and more  —  You know the Reddit trick, right?  The one where, when you’re searching Google and you want an actual human perspective … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google announces a competitor to GitHub’s Copilot, a chat tool for questions about coding, and AI-assisted coding in its no-code AppSheet product  —  At its annual I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of a number of AI-centric coding tools, including its competitor to GitHub’s Copilot … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Google shows AI features coming to Search, including an “AI Snapshot”, which provides a summary of search results, with links that “corroborate” the information  —  Google is moving slowly and carefully to make AI happen.  Maybe too slowly and too carefully for some people. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Google rebrands AI tools for its productivity apps as Duet AI and teases Sidekick, which will read, summarize, and answer questions on documents across its apps  —  In March, Google announced a bunch of AI features for its Workspace suite of apps in an effort to keep pace with Microsoft’s rapid integration of similar tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Google makes Bard available in English in 180 countries and territories, promises AI image generation with Adobe, and integration with services like Instacart  —  Google is adding a smorgasbord of new features to its AI chatbot Bard, including support for new languages (Japanese and Korean) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google unveils features to help identify AI images, including an “About this image” feature and a markup that will allow images to be labeled as “AI-generated”  —  Google is taking its first steps toward combatting the potential for misinformation arising from AI-generated images. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google says PaLM 2 will power its updated Bard chat tool and is now available to developers through Google’s PaLM API, Firebase, and on Colab  —  At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of PaLM 2, its newest large language model (LLM). Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google announces PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities, available in four sizes and powering 25 Google products  —  Google today announced PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities.  This “next generation language model” is faster … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google Photos gets a Magic Editor feature for more complex edits than Magic Eraser can achieve, like repositioning the subject, first coming to select Pixels  —  Google Photos is expanding its use of AI to help users edit and enhance their photos.  While the company has already leveraged AI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google unveils Immersive View for Routes in Google Maps, with traffic simulations, parking, and more, starting with 15 cities, including NYC, London, and Paris  —  Google Maps is going to introduce a new “Immersive View for Routes” feature in select cities, Google announced at its annual I/O conference today. Lees verder op Tech Meme