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While Google and OpenAI have been racing to win the AI crown over the past year, we’ve seemingly reverted away from the idea of speaking to virtual assistants. Generative AI products have typically launched with text-only inputs, and only later add the ability to search images and basic voice commands. At Google I/O today, the … Read more
Google just announced forthcoming scam detection tools coming to Android phones later this year, which is a good thing as these scammers keep getting better and better at parting people from their money. The toolset, revealed at Google I/O 2024, is still in the testing stages but uses AI to suss out fraudsters in the … Read more
Google’s Gemini AI systems can do a lot, judging by today’s I/O keynote. That includes the option to set up a virtual teammate with its own Workspace account. You can configure the teammate to carry out specific tasks, such as to monitor and track projects, organize information, provide context, pinpoint trends after analyzing data and … Read more
Dead by Daylight fans can check out the Dungeons and Dragons chapter starting today, but Behaviour Interactive teased another high-profile crossover during an anniversary showcase on Tuesday. A Castlevania chapter is on the way to DbD. There aren’t any details yet about what that will include, but you just might get to play as Alucard … Read more
Google is inserting more of its Gemini AI into every single product it has and the next target in its sights is Photos. At its I/O developer conference today, the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai announced a feature called Ask Photos, which is designed to help you find specific images in your gallery by talking to … Read more
Google announced updates to its Gemini family of AI models at I/O, the company’s annual conference for developers, on Tuesday. It’s rolling out a new model called Gemini 1.5 Flash, which it says is optimized for speed and efficiency. “[Gemini] 1.5 Flash excels at summarization, chat applications, image and video captioning, data extraction from long … Read more
When Google first showcased its Duplex voice assistant technology at its developer conference in 2018, it was both impressive and concerning. Today, at I/O 2024, the company may be bringing up those same reactions again, this time by showing off another application of its AI smarts with something called Project Astra. The company couldn’t even … Read more
In a video demonstrating the prowess of its new Project Astra app, the person demonstrating asked Gemini “do you remember where you saw my glasses?” The AI impressively responded “Yes, I do. Your glasses were on a desk near a red apple,” despite said object not actually being in view when the question was asked. … Read more
It’s all AI all the time at Google I/O! Today, Google announced its new AI media creation engines: Veo, which can produce “high-quality” 1080p videos; and Imagen 3, its latest text-to-image framework. Neither sound particularly revolutionary, but they’re a way for Google to keep up the fight against OpenAI’s Sora video model and Dall-E 3, … Read more
Microsoft has unveiled the next round of Xbox Game Pass arrivals. The marquee attraction is Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, which launches as a day-one Game Pass title on May 21. But the second May batch also includes Humanity (one of the best PlayStation games from last year), hockey sim EA Sports NHL 24, magical first-person … Read more