Google is adding an audio feature to its AI-powered note-taking app NotebookLM. The new “Audio Overview” allows users to get verbal explanations of complex topics from uploaded documents, as Aisha Malik reports for TechCrunch. AI-generated virtual hosts summarize the content and explain difficult concepts using metaphors. The feature is aimed at people who absorb information …
Google is introducing two new AI models called DataGemma, which are designed to answer statistical questions more accurately. The models, based on the Gemma family, use data from Google’s Data Commons platform. As Shubham Sharma reports in an article for VentureBeat, the models use two different approaches: Retrieval Interleaved Generation (RIG) and Retrieval Augmented Generation …
Google is starting to roll out Gemini Live outside of the “Advanced“ plan on Android. This feature allows natural conversations with the AI assistant, including the ability to interrupt answers. It’s similar to ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, which was introduced months ago but is still not available to all users. As Abner Li reports for …
Google has introduced Prompt Poet, an innovative tool for advanced prompt engineering. As Michael Trestman reports for VentureBeat, the system developed by Character.ai simplifies the creation of complex prompts for large language models through a user-friendly template system. Prompt Poet seamlessly integrates external data to enable contextual AI responses. The special feature of Prompt Poet …
Google is launching its AI-powered “Ask Photos” feature. The new feature, based on the Gemini AI model, allows users to use complex natural language queries to find photos. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that the feature will initially be available to select customers in the US. With “Ask Photos,” users can search for the best …
Google’s DeepMind researchers have developed a new method called JEST that significantly speeds up AI training while reducing energy requirements. By optimizing the selection of training data, JEST can reduce the number of iterations by a factor of 13 and the computational complexity by a factor of 10.
Google wants to improve the accuracy of its AI models. To avoid “hallucinations,” the company is working with partners such as Moody’s, Thomson Reuters, and ZoomInfo who will feed the AI systems with up-to-date information. A new “confidence score” is also supposed to indicate how confident the AI is in its answer being correct. With …
Google’s AI research lab DeepMind has developed a new technology called V2A that can automatically generate appropriate soundtracks, sound effects, and even dialogue for videos. While V2A seems promising, DeepMind admits that the quality of the audio generated is not yet perfect. For now, it is not generally available.
Google admits to errors in its new AI Overviews, which the company says are based on misinterpretations of search queries and web sources. Google is working on improvements, but insists that the accuracy of AI Overviews is comparable to that of traditional search results. In my opinion, this casts a rather bad light on the …
The recently introduced “AI Overviews” in Google Search have produced some strange results – some embarrassing, some ridiculous, some dangerous. This can be seen as an example for what various experts already know and preach: Don’t let your AI work unsupervised. For example, one of Google AI’s recommendations was that cheese sticks better to pizza …