Bard gets its biggest upgrade yet with Gemini {Google A.I / LLM}

[Rembrandt]

When they going to make this an app or integrate into search. Until then Chat GPT gets more use from me.

Some of it is already in search and should be in assistant next year but seemingly only for Pixel 8 (I forget if pro only or not) because of the tensor chips.

Curious when they actually make an actual app for bard like ChatGPT though. It being confined to the site is kind of annoying

 

[gtj1982]

Some of it is already in search and should be in assistant next year but seemingly only for Pixel 8 (I forget if pro only or not) because of the tensor chips.

Curious when they actually make an actual app for bard like ChatGPT though. It being confined to the site is kind of annoying

Yeah I got a short cut on my home screen for it but having to load the browser each time and navigate a web page each time is annoying.

 

[bnew]

https://archive.is/cnVCB

 

[Rembrandt]

https://archive.is/cnVCB

Let's go! We're far from when Google assistant, Cortana, Siri and Alexa would only praise each other

 

[bnew]

 

[Rembrandt]

Thread is interesting comparing ChatGPT especially 4.0's comparison. The food suggestion is silly but if you include red envelope when giving this to ChatGPT, they infer it's from an Asian culture and the things that come with that

 

[bnew]

It’s time for developers and enterprises to build with Gemini Pro

Gemini Pro is now available for developers and enterprises to build AI applications.

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It’s time for developers and enterprises to build with Gemini Pro​

Dec 13, 2023
3 min read
Learn more about how to integrate Gemini Pro into your app or business at ai.google.dev.

Jeanine Banks
VP & GM, Developer X and DevRel

Burak Gokturk
VP & GM, Cloud AI & Industry Solutions

Last week, we announced Gemini, our largest and most capable AI model and the next step in our journey to make AI more helpful for everyone. It comes in three sizes: Ultra, Pro and Nano. We've already started rolling out Gemini in our products: Gemini Nano is in Android, starting with Pixel 8 Pro, and a specifically tuned version of Gemini Pro is in Bard.

Today, we’re making Gemini Pro available for developers and enterprises to build for your own use cases, and we’ll be further fine-tuning it in the weeks and months ahead as we listen and learn from your feedback.

Gemini Pro is available today​

The first version of Gemini Pro is now accessible via the Gemini API and here’s more about it:

• Gemini Pro outperforms other similarly-sized models on research benchmarks.
• Today’s version comes with a 32K context window for text, and future versions will have a larger context window.
• It’s free to use right now, within limits, and it will be competitively priced.
• It comes with a range of features: function calling, embeddings, semantic retrieval and custom knowledge grounding, and chat functionality.
• It supports 38 languages across 180+ countries and territories worldwide.
• In today’s release, Gemini Pro accepts text as input and generates text as output. We’ve also made a dedicated Gemini Pro Vision multimodal endpoint available today that accepts text and imagery as input, with text output.
• SDKs are available for Gemini Pro to help you build apps that run anywhere. Python, Android (Kotlin), Node.js, Swift and JavaScript are all supported.
  

Gemini Pro has SDKs that help you build apps that run anywhere.​

Google AI Studio: The fastest way to build with Gemini​

Google AI Studio is a free, web-based developer tool that enables you to quickly develop prompts and then get an API key to use in your app development. You can sign into Google AI Studio with your Google account and take advantage of the free quota, which allows 60 requests per minute — 20x more than other free offerings. When you’re ready, you can simply click on “Get code” to transfer your work to your IDE of choice, or use one of the quickstart templates available in Android Studio, Colab or Project IDX. To help us improve product quality, when you use the free quota, your API and Google AI Studio input and output may be accessible to trained reviewers. This data is de-identified from your Google account and API key.

Google AI Studio is a free, web-based developer tool that enables you to quickly develop prompts and then get an API key to use in your app development.​

Build with Vertex AI on Google Cloud​

When it's time for a fully-managed AI platform, you can easily transition from Google AI Studio to Vertex AI, which allows for customization of Gemini with full data control and benefits from additional Google Cloud features for enterprise security, safety, privacy and data governance and compliance.

With Vertex AI, you will have access to the same Gemini models, and will be able to:

• Tune and distill Gemini with your own company’s data, and augment it with grounding to include up-to-minute information and extensions to take real-world actions.
• Build Gemini-powered search and conversational agents in a low code / no code environment, including support for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), blended search, embeddings, conversation playbooks and more.
• Deploy with confidence. We never train our models on inputs or outputs from Google Cloud customers. Your data and IP are always your data and IP.
  

To read more about our new Vertex AI capabilities, visit the Google Cloud blog.

Gemini Pro pricing​

Right now, developers have free access to Gemini Pro and Gemini Pro Vision through Google AI Studio, with up to 60 requests per minute, making it suitable for most app development needs. Vertex AI developers can try the same models, with the same rate limits, at no cost until general availability early next year, after which there will be a charge per 1,000 characters or per image across Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

Big impact, small price: Because of our investments in TPUs, Gemini Pro can be served more efficiently.​

Looking ahead​

We’re excited that Gemini is now available to developers and enterprises. As we continue to fine-tune it, your feedback will help us improve. You can learn more and start building with Gemini on ai.google.dev, or use Vertex AI’s robust capabilities on your own data with enterprise-grade controls.

Early next year, we’ll launch Gemini Ultra, our largest and most capable model for highly complex tasks, after further fine-tuning, safety testing and gathering valuable feedback from partners. We’ll also bring Gemini to more of our developer platforms like Chrome and Firebase.

We’re excited to see what you build with Gemini.

 

[greenvale]

 

[bnew]

https://archive.is/tGygh

https://archive.is/Zg7Fr

 

[TripleAgent]

 

[bnew]

Google's new Gemini-powered conversational tool helps advertisers quickly build Search campaigns | TechCrunch

Google announced today that Gemini now powers the conversational experience within the Google Ads platform.

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Google’s new Gemini-powered conversational tool helps advertisers quickly build Search campaigns​

Aisha Malik @aiishamalik1 / 1:21 PM EST•January 23, 2024

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Google announced today that Gemini, its family of multimodal large language models, now powers the conversational experience within the Google Ads platform. With this new update, it will be easier for advertisers to quickly build and scale Search ad campaigns.

The conversational experience is designed to help build Search campaigns through a chat-based tool. The tool uses your website URL to create Search campaigns by generating relevant ad content, including assets and keywords. It suggests images tailored to your campaign using generative AI and images from your website. Google notes that that all of the images created with generative AI will be identified as such.

Advertisers approve the images and text before the campaign goes live.

Beta access to the conversational experience in Google Ads is now available to all English language advertisers in the U.S. and U.K. Access will start opening up globally to all English language advertisers over the next few weeks. Google plans to open up access in additional languages in the upcoming months.

Image Credits: Google

“Over the last few months, we’ve been testing the conversational experience with a small group of advertisers,” wrote Shashi Thakur, Google’s VP and GM of Google Ads, in a blog post. “We observed that it helps them build higher quality Search campaigns with less effort.”

The new tool will join Google’s other AI-powered tools for advertisers. A few months ago, Google introduced a suite of generative AI product imagery tools for advertisers in the U.S. called “Product Studio.” The tools allow merchants and advertisers to use text-to-image AI capabilities to create new product imagery for free by typing in a prompt describing what they would like to see. The tools also allow advertisers to improve low-quality images and remove distracting backgrounds.

Today’s announcement comes as Google has been pushing to integrate AI across its products. For instance, the company revealed today that it’s adding three new AI-powered features to Chrome, including a way to organize your tabs, customize your theme, and get help when writing things like online reviews or forum posts on the web.

 

[bnew]

Google Chrome gains AI features, including a writing helper, theme creator, and tab organizer | TechCrunch

Google's Chrome web browser is getting an infusion of AI technology in the latest release. The company announced today it's soon adding a trio of new

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Google Chrome gains AI features, including a writing helper, theme creator, and tab organizer​

Sarah Perez @sarahpereztc / 12:00 PM EST•January 23, 2024

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Google’s Chrome web browser is getting an infusion of AI technology in the latest release. The company announced today it’s soon adding a trio of new AI-powered features to Chrome for Mac and Windows, including a way to smartly organize your tabs, customize your theme, and get help when writing things on the web — like forum posts, online reviews, and more.

The latter is similar to a feature already available to Google’s experimental AI search experience, SGE (Search Generative Experience), which allows users to get help drafting things like emails in different tones, like more formal or more casual, or in different lengths.

With the built-in writing helper in Chrome, Google suggests users could write business reviews, “craft a friendly RSVP to a party,” or make a more formal inquiry about a vacation rental, among other things, including writing posts in public spaces, like online forum sites.

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The still-experimental feature will be accessible in next month’s Chrome release by right-clicking on a text box or field on the web and then choosing “help me write.” To get started, you’ll first write a few words and then Google’s AI will jump in to help.

In addition to the writing assistant, AI can also be used to help organize tab groups and personalize your browser.

Chrome’s Tab Groups feature allows users who keep many tabs open to manage them by organizing them into groups. However, curating them can be a manual process, the company explains. With the new Tab Organizer, Chrome will automatically suggest and create groups based on the tabs you already have open. This feature will be available by right-clicking on a tab and selecting “Organize Similar Tabs.” Chrome will also suggest names and emojis for the tab groups it creates to make them easier to find. This feature is intended to assist when users are online shopping, researching, trip planning, or doing other tasks that tend to leave a lot of open tabs.

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A final addition mirrors the new generative AI wallpaper experience that recently arrived on Android 14 and Pixel devices. Now Google will use the same text-to-image diffusion model to allow users to generate custom themes for their Chrome browser. The feature allows you to generate these themes by subject, mood, visual style, and color by selecting the new “Create with AI” option after opening the “Customize Chrome” side panel and clicking “Change theme.” Before, Chrome offered a variety of colorful but simple themes to choose from alongside those from artists, but this feature will allow users to expand beyond the built-in choices to create a theme that better matches their own current vibe.

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Though a busy theme could be distracting, the feature at least allows users who don’t have an Android phone to test-drive Google’s generative AI for personalization, even if they end up returning to a more basic theme for day-to-day use.

While the drafting feature won’t arrive until next month’s Chrome release, Google says that the other features, like the tab organizer and AI theme creator, will roll out over the next few days in the U.S. on both Mac and Windows with the current Chrome release (M121). To access these features, you’ll sign into Chrome, select “Settings” from the three-dot menu, and then navigate to the “Experimental AI” page. Because the features are experimental, they won’t ship to enterprise and educational customers at this time, the company notes.

The features join other AI-powered and machine learning (ML) tools already available in Chrome, like its ability to caption audio and video, protect users from malicious sites via Android’s Safe Browsing feature in Chrome, silence permission prompts, and summarize web pages via the “SGE while browsing” feature.

Google says that Chrome will be updated with more AI and ML features in the coming year, including through integrations with its new AI model, Gemini, which will be used to help make web browsing easier.

 

[Alvin]

is this as good as microsoft's bing? chatgpt? or claude?

 

[bnew]

Google announces new AI-powered features for education | TechCrunch

Google announced a bunch of new features for classroom management, accessibility, and AI-powered features for creating questions and lesson plans as part

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Google announces new AI-powered features for education​

Ivan Mehta @indianidle / 8:52 AM EST•January 24, 2024

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Google announced a bunch of new features for classroom management, accessibility, and AI-powered features for creating questions and lesson plans as part of the Bett ed-tech event in the UK.

AI-powered features​

Google already allows teachers to add questions to a YouTube video as part of its Classroom assignment. The company said that soon, AI will help with suggestions for questions at different timestamps. The company first announced this feature in June 2023. However, at that time, teachers had to apply to get this feature.

The company added that the Practice sets feature, which uses AI to create answers and general hints, is now available in over 50 languages. Plus, educators can turn a Google Form into a practice set.

Additionally, Google is introducing a new Resources tab to manage practice sets and interactive questions asked during a video.

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Additionally, the company mentioned that its generative AI tool for Google Workspace, Duet AI, can assist teachers in coming up with a lesson plan.

Class management​

Google said that teachers will now be able to form different groups in the Classroom later this year. They can also assign different assignments to different groups.

Plus, they can use the speaker spotlight feature in Slides to create a lesson with narration along with the slide deck.

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Now, Educators can also easily collect signatures for approvals or contracts through eSigature facility available in the Google Workspace.

The company is also updating Classroom analytics so educators can look at stats like assignment completion and trends for grades.

Accessibility​

Google is adding the ability to get text from PDFs for screen readers on ChromeOS. Plus, with the Chome browser users can highlight and read text aloud.

Image Credits: Google

The company is also adding features to Google Meet such as closed captions in 30 languages and the ability to pin multiple hosts.

Chromebooks​

The company said that it is exhibiting 15 new Chromebooks at Bett, which will launch this year. Plus, Google is soon updating Chromebooks so that students can look at their upcoming assignments directly from the home screen.

Image Credits: Google

 

[bnew]

is this as good as microsoft's bing? chatgpt? or claude?

depends on what you use it for, copy and paste the same prompts into all of them to see which responses you prefer.