no need to wait 6 months.  Google just said - "hold my beer".  

Today at I/O, Google announces Project Astra, a universal #Artificial Intelligence agent.  Powered by Google Gemini, it can understand what you say + what you point your camera to.

It looks remarkably clever, it seems to have memory and it can identify a wide range of inputs: where you are, engineering diagrams, even where you left your glasses

Artificial Intelligence

no need to wait 6 months.  Google just said - "hold my beer".    Today at I/O, Google announces Project Astra, a universal #Artificial Intelligence agent.  Powered by Google Gemini, it can understand what you say + what you point your camera to.  It looks remarkably clever, it seems to have memory and it can identify a wide range of inputs: where you are, engineering diagrams, even where you left your glasses

Google AI - A shake-up in the management ranks of the tech giant, unveiled on Thursday, belatedly fixes a flaw in the company’s artificial intelligence organization, one that had constrained its ability to compete with ChatGPT’s creator, OpenAI.  

CEO Sundar Pichai today moved the team behind Google’s Gemini AI chatbot from its search and ads unit to its DeepMind AI research team.  

Previously, they combined Google’s two #Artificial Intelligence  research efforts under DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis but didn’t give Hassabis oversight of how AI products got rolled out. 

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/17/google-gemini-app-deepmind-reorg

Google AI - A shake-up in the management ranks of the tech giant, unveiled on Thursday, belatedly fixes a flaw in the company’s artificial intelligence organization, one that had constrained its ability to compete with ChatGPT’s creator, OpenAI.    CEO Sundar Pichai today moved the team behind Google’s Gemini AI chatbot from its search and ads unit to its DeepMind AI research team.    Previously, they combined Google’s two #Artificial Intelligence  research efforts under DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis but didn’t give Hassabis oversight of how AI products got rolled out.   https://www.axios.com/2024/10/17/google-gemini-app-deepmind-reorg

As part of the reporg, Nick Fox is taking over most of Prabhakar Raghavan's responsibilities.

Exclusive: Google moves Gemini app team to DeepMind unit

Sam Mendoza

All the announcements are exciting but we still have to wait and see many of them and adoption may be slow.  Circle to search though, I think will be an instant hit! 

https://www.wired.com/story/google-io-gemini-on-android-circle-to-search/?ref=platformer.news

All the announcements are exciting but we still have to wait and see many of them and adoption may be slow.  Circle to search though, I think will be an instant hit!   https://www.wired.com/story/google-io-gemini-on-android-circle-to-search/?ref=platformer.news

Google’s new upgrades to Gemini and Circle to Search offer a look at how the operating system might change and revolve around artificial intelligence.

With Gemini on Android, Google Points to Mobile Computing’s Future—and Past

Tasia

I can't tell if Google is overcoming the innovator's dilemma or succumbing to it. Too early to tell, I suppose. The GenAI search niche needs to be addressed or others will dominate, I'm looking at you Perplexity and Open AI. But the core blue-link advertising business needs to be cannibalized in a very delicate manner as users increasingly look to generative solutions. It feels like Google's spray and pray solution, "AI Everywhere" is designed to distract investors from the core threat to its business model (not to mention the grand bargain it created with content creators to get all that content for free). Making popcorn. Enjoying the show.

Google's newest chip, Trillium, is nearly five times as fast as its previous version, and Google says it will greatly improve AI data center performance. 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-launches-trillium-chip-improving-ai-data-center-performance-fivefold-2024-05-14/?ref=platformer.news

What were everyone's favorite new features, models, and experiments?

Cyril

Google's newest chip, Trillium, is nearly five times as fast as its previous version, and Google says it will greatly improve AI data center performance.   https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-launches-trillium-chip-improving-ai-data-center-performance-fivefold-2024-05-14/?ref=platformer.news

Google parent Alphabet on Tuesday unveiled a product called Trillium in its artificial intelligence data center chip family that it says is nearly five times as fast as its prior version.

Google launches Trillium chip, improving AI data center performance fivefold

Nate

Turns out Alphabet owning YouTube and hosting a lot of the world’s email is useful for building AI products. 🙄

D J

A group of likeminded people in Artificial Intelligence are talking about this.