Key day for Google. The Mountain View company celebrates this Wednesday afternoon Google I / O, the annual developer conference in which it unveils its novelties in hardware, software and services. The company has presented some new features that will lead to applications such as Gmail, Google Photos or Google Maps and its Bard smart chat, with which it aspires to deal with ChatGPT. Some leaks suggest that the company will present its first foldable phone, the Pixel 7a – its most affordable mobile – and Android 14.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of the Internet's most popular search giant, said that "artificial intelligence is having a very busy year." "We are at an exciting inflection point. We have an opportunity to make artificial intelligence even more useful for people, businesses and communities, for everyone."
He then gave an example of how Google intends to take Gmail to the next level. In 2017, the company launched smart responses, "short responses" that were generated automatically. Now Pichai has presented "a much more powerful generative model." "Imagine you get an email that your flight was cancelled and you want a full refund," he said. Gmail will have a new button that will allow the user to give instructions and automatically generate a much more elaborate message. In this case, you would ask for a full refund and be able to "conveniently extract flight details from the previous email."
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Google has also introduced a new feature to view routes in 3D in Google Maps and Magic Editor, a Google Photos tool for "making complex edits without professional-level editing skills." For example, changing the position or size of the person in the image, making the sky brighter or less cloudy, and even removing the strap from a bag.
Coping with ChatGPT
Google's bet to deal with ChatGPT is Bard, its own intelligent chatbot. When this tool was introduced, in February 2023, the CEO of the company, Sundar Pichai, explained in a statement that it could be used "to explain to a 9-year-old the latest discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope or to learn things about the best scorers in the current football landscape and then create training routines that help you improve your skills. "
Jack Krawczyk, Google's chief product officer, cited last week in a roundtable with journalists from around the world some of the most creative uses that some users have given to Bard: "From film directors who ask to be filled in spaces in their scripts to parents who want to make plans with their children." At the event held this afternoon, Google announced that Bard will be able to export the generated text to Gmail and Google Docs and include images in the responses. The tool will be available in English in 180 countries, as well as Korean and Japanese. The technology company plans to launch it soon in another 40 languages.
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