During its annual Google I/O conference, internet giant Google introduced a slew of new AI-powered capabilities, with updated AI tech due to emerging across its key platforms. The annual Google I/O conference was held in California on May 10, with CEO Sundar Pichai delivering a k...
Google’s model, “PaLM 2,” was updated with increased reasoning, coding, and multilingualism capabilities as the model was trained on increasingly difficult and varied topic matters.
Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, was among the items given the PaLM 2 makeover, which included new functionality and a wider rollout. The conversational AI model was first introduced roughly two months ago, but only in the United States and the United Kingdom; it is now available in over 180 nations, with more to follow.
Improvements to Bard’s coding ability and repertory are part of the upgrade. Google also improved its citations, with the bot noting where it obtained specific code. Adobe’s generative picture AI tools will be integrated into Bard shortly, allowing it to generate images given a prompt, similar to other popular applications.
Many additional Google products received PaLM 2 support, and Pichai led a series of demonstrations highlighting new AI-powered features on Google Maps, Docs, Mail, and Photos. One example featured an AI-powered version of Gmail’s “Smart Compose” feature, which can compose email responses based on a prompt. It also appears to draw data from the email thread to bulk out responses and may be modified to make the wording more formal, detailed, or brief.
A similar application, “Magic Compose,” is coming to Google’s Android phones with AI-generated responses that allegedly assist make a message express the “desired vibe” such as “chill” or “Shakespeare.” Despite the fact that PaLM 2 was just released, Google is working on a purportedly more advanced large language model named “Gemini” to replace it or, at the very least, provide another option.
Although Gemini is still in the early stages of development, Pichai stated that Google is “already seeing impressive multimodal capabilities not seen in prior models.” He noted that once “fine-tuned and rigorously tested for safety,” Gemini, like PaLM 2, will be available in a variety of sizes and capabilities.