The leak that appeared on social networks in the last day revealed Google's new artificial intelligence feature, which will be released soon and become the new assistant of hundreds of millions of Android users around the world.
In short, the feature will integrate Google's artificial intelligence system, "Bard", directly into the messaging platform of the operating system.
The interface will look something like ChatGPT and will be pre-installed on any Android based smartphone.
Google's Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro launch event.
Artificial intelligence in the palm of your hand // Photo: Reuters
Sounds good so far, doesn't it?
Well, despite the understandable excitement that Google is bringing "Bard" to its operating system, it turns out that this upgrade also has a dark side - Bard is going to read and analyze users' private messages.
According to Google, "Bard is an artificial intelligence assistant that will improve the messaging experience, facilitate communication and improve creativity and information transfer. It is a personal artificial intelligence assistant that will integrate into the users' messaging application."
Along with the beautiful description (although we admit that we are not clear on what "improving the messaging experience") actually means, Google's AI tool is going to have free access to the content of private messages, and analyze it.
Google.
Want as much information as possible from its users?, Photo: AP
Google is rushing towards a future full of AI
With the launch of the new feature, Google's challenge will be to convince users that their privacy is preserved despite Bard's approach to their private messages.
The task will not be easy since every request that a user requests from Bard will be sent to be processed in the cloud, will be used for training purposes and will potentially be read by the Google employees responsible for the system.
It should be noted that this combination of chat and AI messaging is likely to forever change the way we use text platforms.
This is also one of the reasons that Google has recently been fighting a battle of real giants against Apple and Meta, whose systems and applications run our lives.
As you remember, just a week ago Google announced three new AI tools for its browser, Google Chrome, which should help users surf the Internet more easily and safely than before.
The tools will be available in the latest version of Chrome (M121) for both Windows computers and Apple's macOS.
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