Google’s NEW UniPi AI Takes Robotics Industry By Storm

 Google Goes Robotic

Google’s NEW UniPi AI Takes Robotics Industry By Storm (4 FUNCTIONS ANNOUNCED)

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Google's latest breakthrough in AI robotics, UniPi, is a universal policy model that revolutionizes AI decision-making through text-guided video generation, outperforming heavyweights like GPT, PaLM, CLIP, and Flamingo by addressing challenges of environmental diversity, reinforcement learning, and generating goal-oriented agents with trajectory consistency, hierarchical planning, flexible behavioral modulation, and task-specific action adaptation. The emergence of Objaverse-XL, a vast database of over 10 million 3D objects, signifies a significant advancement in 3D computer vision and generative AI, addressing the scarcity of high-quality 3D data.

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Google AI Asssisted Note Taking gets Limited Launch

Google AI Asssisted Note Taking gets Limited Launch in Tech Crunch

Google is making its “AI notebook for everyone” available to a select few and renaming it from Project Tailwind to NotebookLM. If you struggle to make sense of the pile of information in your Google Drive, a light coating of AI could be just the thing.

The project was announced at I/O in May as a way for students to organize the various lecture notes and other documents they accumulate during coursework.

Unlike a generic chatbot that draws on a vast corpus of largely unrelated information, NotebookLM restricts (or attempts to restrict) itself to analyzing and answering questions about the documents it is fed. It will still draw on its broader knowledge if you require it to, but the general idea is that its first resort is to the information it has most recently been exposed to.

If you’re taking a class on Lord Byron and ask it what the significance was of his dying in Greece rather than England, it will first consult your notes and any supporting documents, and report from those. But if you don’t happen to have written down the date and location of his death (April 19, 1824, in Missolonghi, Greece), it can still fetch that information from elsewhere. (At least, this is how I understand the system to work in a general sense.)  ... ' 

The Mayo Clinic Is Bringing Google’s AI Chatbot to Medical Facilities

More AI chatbot here PaLM 2 uses, here in medicine.

The Mayo Clinic Is Bringing Google’s AI Chatbot to Medical Facilities in Extremetech

The healthcare industry is one of the riskiest arenas to which AI can be introduced, but Google is confident Med-PaLM 2 will rise to the challenge.

By Adrianna Nine July 11, 2023

Google is confidently making a foray into the healthcare industry with Med-PaLM 2, a variation of its PaLM 2 language model. Through a partnership with The Mayo Clinic, the AI chatbot will soon assist clinicians and their administrative staff with time-consuming, hands-off tasks like health record retrieval and routine medical questions. 

The Mayo Clinic has been testing Med-PaLM 2 since April, according to a report published Monday by The Wall Street Journal. PaLM 2, Google’s latest iteration of the original PaLM, powers many AI tools, from Bard (a ChatGPT-like generative bot) to Gecko (a mini PaLM 2 designed to operate locally on the user’s smartphone). Med-PaLM 2 is reportedly different in that it isn’t meant to serve a variety of industries. Instead, it’s trained on medical licensing exams, providing it with what Google believes to be sufficient knowledge to handle patient and staff requests appropriately. 

There isn’t much public information regarding what Med-PaLM 2 will do. While we’ve reached out to The Mayo Clinic for more details, the WSJ reports that Med-PaLM 2 will be able to “hold conversations on healthcare issues” and “generate responses to medical questions.” It’ll also help with data processing by retrieving documents and, according to Google itself, “[finding] insights in complicated and unstructured medical texts.”  ... 

Microsoft brings new AI-powered shopping tools to Bing and Edge.

Oh, Oh,  are we shopping now?  Was this allowed?  Will Google play nice?

Microsoft brings new AI-powered shopping tools to Bing and Edge  in TechCrunch

Frederic Lardinois@fredericl / 11:00 AM EDT•June 29, 2023

People walk past a Microsoft store entrance with the company's logo on top in midtown Manhattan

Microsoft today announced a slew of new AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in the Edge sidebar. While a lot of the shopping features that Microsoft built into Edge over the years aren’t exactly fan favorites, this new set of tools actually looks useful.

Microsoft will now, for example, use Bing’s GPT-powered AI capabilities to automatically generate buying guides when you use a query like “college supplies.” It will automatically aggregate products in each category it comes up with, list their specs so you can compare similar items and, of course, tell you where to buy them (with Microsoft getting an affiliate fee when you buy).

Given that there is an entire ecosystem of sites that focus on these kinds of buying guides, it will be interesting to see how they will react to this change (and if Microsoft is doing this in Bing, Google and others will surely follow suit). Nobody is going to bemoan the end of the low-quality, SEO-optimized shopping content you often find when you try to compare different products, but this has the potential to hurt legitimate editorial operations, too. ... ' 

Help me Organize in Google Sheets

'Help me' gives google an edge.

 AI-powered ‘Help me organize’ starts rolling out in Google Sheets

Avatar for Abner Li    Jun 22 2023 - 11:22 am PT

The latest Duet AI features entering Workspace Labs is “Help me organize” for Google Sheets.

Announced at I/O 2023, Google is leveraging generative AI to suggest and create table templates (e.g., product roadmaps, budgets, events). A “Help me organize” side panel lets you enter Google Sheets prompts like:

Agenda for a one-day sales kickoff event with session descriptions and status

Client and pet roster for a dog walking business  ... ' 

Google says its Lens image search can now help identify skin conditions

Recall talking to Google on such capabilities. 

Google says its Lens image search can now help identify skin conditions

‘Just take a picture or upload a photo through Lens, and you’ll find visual matches to inform your search.’

By Jon Porter, a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards.

Jun 15, 2023, 8:04 AM EDT 

Google Lens is now able to offer more information on that pesky rash that you’re not sure whether to worry about. In a blog post published this week, Google outlined how the Lens image search feature built into its apps on iOS and Android can “search for skin conditions” like an “odd mole or rash.” It’ll also work on other parts of your body if you want more information about a bump on your lip, line on a nail, or hair loss from your scalp. 

“Just take a picture or upload a photo through Lens, and you’ll find visual matches to inform your search,” the blog post reads. Crucially, however, Google specifically warns that results are “informational only and not a diagnosis” and says users should “consult your medical authority for advice.” 

Google debuts AI-powered ad Placement tools

Lets see it.

Google debuts AI-powered ad placement tools

BY MIKE WHEATLEY

Alphabet Inc.’s Google said today it’s enhancing its online advertising placement capabilities with the launch of two new artificial intelligence-powered tools that are designed to find the best ad placements for brands automatically across its range of websites and services.

AI has become one of the hottest trends in the technology industry this year thanks to the hype surrounding chatbots such as Google’s Bard and OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT. Those chatbots can respond to almost any kind of prompt or query in a humanly way, holding open-ended conversations with users. However, Google is deploying a different kind of AI in its bid to help advertisers, which generate the bulk of the company’s revenue.

Google has introduced AI tools for advertisers in the past, but today’s launch marks the first time it’s helping brands to achieve such specific goals for their ads. For instance, the new Demand Gen feature relies on AI smarts to help place photo and video ads on various services, such as Google Search, Gmail, the main YouTube feed and Shorts, which is YouTube’s short-form video feature similar to TikTok.

In a blog post, Vidhya Srinivisan, Google’s vice president and general manager of ads, said Demand Gen effectively eliminates the need for advertisers to manually determine their ad placements. The AI uses its knowledge of users and their behavior to find “shiny, visual and immersive placements” that will have the most impact.  ...  ;

Google Introduces new features—called Search Generative Experience

New Search in Retail

Google Introduces new features—called Search Generative Experience   by Tom Ryan  in Retailwire

Google last week introduced a new set of features—called Search Generative Experience—that deliver AI-generated summaries to queries similar to ChatGPT as well as follow-up prompts to engage users in a conversation. The technology promises more accurate, relevant and expansive information when shopping via Google search.

“With generative AI in Search, we can help you understand the full picture when you’re shopping, making even the most considered and complex purchase decisions faster and much easier,” wrote Elizabeth Reid, Google’s VP & GM, search, in a blog entry. “When searching for a product, you’ll get a snapshot of noteworthy factors to consider and products that fit the bill. You’ll also get product descriptions that include relevant, up-to-date reviews, ratings, prices and product images.”

The technology giant’s new generative AI shopping technology is powered by Google’s Shopping Graph, which has over 35 billion product listings with 1.8 billion refreshed every hour.

Follow-ups to the original search query take on a conversational style without the need for repeating context or details already provided. “You’ll also find helpful jumping-off points to web content and a range of perspectives that you can dig into,” Ms. Reid wrote.

Search ads will continue to appear in dedicated slots throughout the page, promising to be “distinguishable from organic search results.”

The search feature will initially only be available in the U.S. through a waiting list system. The platform is described as an ongoing “experiment” with improvements expected over time.

“There are known limitations with generative AI and LLMs [large-language models], and Search, even today, will not always get it right,” wrote Ms. Reid. “We’re taking a responsible and deliberate approach to bringing new generative AI capabilities to search.” ... ' 

Google Free Intro Generative AI Course

 Google Just Released a FREE introductory Generative AI Course 

Here’s everything you need to know about Google’s generative AI learning path.

Via The PyCoach  Artificial Corner,  fromThe PyCoach:   https://artificialcorner.com/ Will review.

A few days ago Google launched a Generative AI learning path with courses that cover topics such as Introduction to Generative AI, Large Language Models, Image Generation, etc.

The best thing is that some of the courses don’t have any prerequisites and are free, so even those with no programming knowledge can make the most of the courses.

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/journeys/118

Here’s everything you need to know about these AI courses.

Who is this course for?

Anyone who is interested in learning about Generative AI products, Large Language Models, and how to deploy Generative AI solutions should enroll in this course.  ..... 

Google’s AI-powered Search Experience is Way too Slow

A review in The Verge.  Speed mentioned.    I am examining. Look to see a response. 

Google’s AI-powered search experience is way too slow      in The Verge by Jay Peters

Why wait for an AI-generated summary when I can just scroll down the page?

The worst thing about Google’s new AI-powered search experience is how long you have to wait.

Can you think of the last time you waited for a Google Search result? For me, searches are generally instant. You type a thing in the search box, Google almost immediately spits out an answer to that thing, and then you can click some links to learn more about what you searched for or type something else into the box. It’s a virtuous, useful cycle that has turned Google Search into the most visited website in the world.

Google’s Search Generative Experience, on the other hand, has loading animations. Loading animations!

Let me back up a little. In May, Google introduced an experimental feature called Search Generative Experience (SGE) that uses Google’s AI systems to summarize search results for you. The idea is that you won’t have to click through a list of links or type something else in the search box; instead, Google will just tell you what you’re looking for. In theory, that means your search queries can be more complex and conversational — a pitch we’ve heard before! — but Google will still be able to answer your questions.

If you’ve opted in to SGE, which is only available to people who sign up for Google’s waitlist on its Search Labs, AI summaries will appear right under the search box. I’ve been using SGE for a few days, and I’ve found the responses themselves have been generally fine, if cluttered. For example, when I searched “where can I watch Ted Lasso?” the AI-generated response that appeared was a few sentences long and factually accurate. It’s on Apple TV Plus. Apple TV Plus costs $6.99 per month. Great.

A screenshot of Google’s Search Generative Experience showing results for the query: “where can I watch Ted Lasso?”

But the answers are often augmented with a bunch of extra stuff. On desktop, Google displays source information as cards on the right, even though you can’t easily tell which pieces of information come from which sources (another button can help you with that). On mobile (well, only the Google app for now), the cards appear below the summarized text. Below the query response, you can click a series of potential follow-up prompts, and under all of that is a standard Google search result, which can be littered with additional info boxes.

That extra stuff in an SGE result isn’t quite as helpful as it should be, either. When it showed off SGE at I/O, Google also showed how the tool could auto-generate a buying guide on the fly, so I thought “where can I buy Tears of the Kingdom?” would be a softball question. But the result was a mess, littered with giant sponsored cards above the result, a confusing list of suggested retail stores that didn’t actually take me to listings for the game, a Google Map pinpointing those retail stores, and off to the right, three link cards where I could find my way to buying the game. A search for a used iPhone 13 Mini in red didn’t go much better. I should have just scrolled down.   .... ' 

Google releases Bard to the world – but leaves the EU behind

Example of how Country/region regulation can stall uses, increase training, mauntenance needs. 

 Google releases Bard to the world – but leaves the EU behind    in Nextweb

The bloc's frosty reception of generative AI could be to blame

May 11, 2023 - 12:26 pm

During its I/O 2023 event yesterday, Google announced it had officially removed the waitlist for its AI-powered chatbot Bard and made the service available in 180 countries and territories.

Sadly for most Europeans keen on testing the tech giant’s contribution to the generative AI race, the countries of the European Union are not included in the list. 

The company has not made any comments on why the EU has been left out. However, it would not be too far-fetched to assume it has something to do with how members of the bloc have reacted to the introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

In all likelihood, Google is also waiting for the finalisation of the EU’s much-anticipated AI Act, before unleashing Bard across the continent. The leading European Parliament committees gave their approval for the act earlier today, with a tentative plenary adoption date scheduled for 14 June. 

While not offering any specific plans for increased geographical access, Google says it will “gradually expand to more countries and territories in a way that is consistent with local regulations and our AI principles.” 

Trained on Google’s new model

Along with the release of Bard to much of the world (and sharp VPN wielders), Google also introduced a range of new features to the chatbot. First of all, it is now powered by Google’s newest large language model: PaLM2, an upgraded version of PaLM, released in April. Meanwhile, Bard was still introduced as a “conversational AI experiment.”

Google Poses a Search General Experience (SGE)

Google Labs writes (Click through for detail), had been brought  to to my attention.   Will report later on experience.  Note the specific 'generative search ' idea.    Will we buy in?

3 new ways generative AI can help you search

This week, we began opening up access to Search Labs, a new program to test out early experiments from Google — like SGE (Search Generative Experience). Once you’re in, the new generative AI powered Search experience will help you take some of the work out of searching, so you can understand a topic faster, uncover new viewpoints and insights and get things done more easily. Learn more about how to sign up to access Search Labs — and three ways generative AI can help you search.

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We also announced a Collaboration Agreement with the World Health Organization to address public health crises and scale our health impact for billions of people. Read more >>   ... '

Google Begins Opening Access to Generative AI in Search

 More from recent conference

Google begins opening access to generative AI in search

If you signed up for the Search Labs waitlist, keep an eye on your inbox.

Will Shanklin|May 25, 2023 1:55 PM   in Engadget

Google’s take on AI-powered search begins rolling out today. The company announced this morning that it’s opening access to Google Search Generative Experience (SGE) and other Search Labs in the US. If you haven’t already, you’ll need to sign up for the waitlist and sit tight until you get an email announcing it’s your turn.

Revealed at Google I/O 2023 earlier this month, Google SGE is the company’s infusion of conversational AI into the classic search experience. If you’ve played with Bing AI, expect a familiar — yet different — product. Cherlynn Low noted in Engadget’s SGE preview that Google’s AI-powered search uses the same input bar you’re used to rather than a separate chatbot field like in Bing. Next, the generative AI results will appear in a shaded section below the search bar (and sponsored results) but above the standard web results. Meanwhile, on the top right of the AI results is a button letting you expand the snapshot, and it adds cards showing the sourced articles. Finally, you can ask follow-up questions by tapping a button below the results.

Google describes the snapshot as “key information to consider, with links to dig deeper.” Think of it like a slice of Bard injected (somewhat) seamlessly into the Google search you already know.

In addition, Google is opening access to other Search Labs, including Code Tips and Add to Sheets (both are US-only for now). Code Tips “harnesses the power of large language models to provide pointers for writing code faster and smarter.” It lets aspiring developers ask how-to questions about programming languages (C, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Python and TypeScript), tools (Docker, Git, shells) and algorithms. Meanwhile, as its name suggests, Add to Sheets lets you insert search results directly into Google’s spreadsheet app. Tapping a Sheets icon to the left of a search result will pop up a list of your recent documents; choose one to which you want to attach the result.  . ... '

Google AI can now Answer your Questions about Uncaptioned Images

Google AI can now answer your questions about uncaptioned images

Google Maps will also display wheelchair-accessible places.

Jon Fingas|@jonfingas|May 18, 2023 11:38 AM in engadget

Google's latest accessibility features include a potentially clever use of AI. The company is updating its Lookout app for Android with an "image question and answer" feature that uses DeepMind-developed AI to elaborate on descriptions of images with no captions or alt text. If the app sees a dog, for example, you can ask (via typing or voice) if that pup is playful. Google is inviting a handful of people with blindness and low vision to test the feature, with plans to expand the audience "soon."

It will also be easier to get around town if you use a wheelchair — or a stroller, for that matter. Google Maps is expanding wheelchair-accessible labels to everyone, so you'll know if there's a step-free entrance before you show up. If a location doesn't have a friendly entrance, you'll see an alert as well as details for other accommodations (such as wheelchair-ready seating) to help you decide whether or not a place is worth the journey.

Google Maps with wheelchair-accessible place label

A handful of minor updates could still be helpful. Live Caption for calls lets you type back responses that are read aloud to recipients. Chrome on desktop (soon for mobile) now spots URL typos and suggests alternatives. As announced, Wear OS 4 will include faster and more consistent text-to-speech when it arrives later in the year.

Google has been pushing hard on AI in recent months, and launched a deluge of features at I/O 2023. The Lookout upgrade might be one of the most useful, though. While AI descriptions are helpful, the Q&A feature can provide details that would normally require another human's input. That could boost independence for people with vision issues. ... ' 

Google Pixel Smartphones Will Add Bard AI Widget: Report

Its everywhere!  Am now using GPT on my Iphone, now it will show up on any Android too, see below.  Not really usually for a specific need yet, but interesting to see.    Had Wikipedia, now have a broader source of knowledge added in.  Instructive, but useful now?  

Google Pixel Smartphones Will Add Bard AI Widget: Report in Voicebot.ai

ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on May 5, 2023 at 9:00 am

Google may turn Bard generative AI chatbot into a widget on Pixel smartphones and tablets, according to a 9to5Google code dive report. Bard is publicly available, but only through a web portal. An Android-accessible version, even limited to Pixel devices, could help the company nab more of the market currently dominated by OpenAI and Microsoft through ChatGPT and the ChatGPT-powered Bing.

BARD PIXEL

Though Google hasn’t spread Bard beyond its initial entry point, other tools fueled by the same LaMDA large language model (LLM) have become more available. Generative AI text generators and editors for Gmail, Docs, and other parts of Google’s software suite now offer some version of the technology. It looks like Google is looking to make Bard a widget on the main Pixel screen. What it will do has not been uncovered, though more immediate chatbot interaction would likely be the very minimum of its capabilities. The widget will probably become available in some form on other Android devices, as it wouldn’t make much sense to keep it only on Google’s hardware. Perhaps Pixel users will have earlier access to the widget or some additional features.  More may be revealed at Google I/O next week when the new Pixel smartphone and tablet are due to be announced.  ... ' 

Google Emphasizes more Generative AI Search

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Supercharging Search with generative AI

May 10, 2023

Sign up today to test our latest update to Search, which uses generative AI to give you more information and context to your searches.

Elizabeth Reid, Vice President & GM, Search, Share

Several images of the Search Generative Experience surrounding the product logo

For the past 25 years, we’ve been devoted to the science and the craft of building a search engine. We’ve developed completely new ways to search, powered by our latest advancements in AI — whether that’s searching visually with Lens, or across modalities, using both images and text with multisearch. In fact, people now use Lens for 12 billion visual searches a month — a four-fold increase in just two years, and a growing number of those searches are multimodal.

With new breakthroughs in generative AI, we’re again reimagining what a search engine can do. With this powerful new technology, we can unlock entirely new types of questions you never thought Search could answer, and transform the way information is organized, to help you sort through and make sense of what’s out there.

Today we’re sharing a look at our first steps in this new era of Search, and you’ll be able to first try these generative AI capabilities in Search Labs, a new way to access early experiments in Search.

Improving Search with generative AI

With new generative AI capabilities in Search, we’re now taking more of the work out of searching, so you’ll be able to understand a topic faster, uncover new viewpoints and insights, and get things done more easily.

Let’s take a question like “what's better for a family with kids under 3 and a dog, bryce canyon or arches.” Normally, you might break this one question down into smaller ones, sort through the vast information available, and start to piece things together yourself. With generative AI, Search can do some of that heavy lifting for you.

You’ll see an AI-powered snapshot of key information to consider, with links to dig deeper.... 

Google: AI should never be credited as an inventor

Credit, Invention and the Future use of builder on invention you can build on in a kind of open source.

Google: AI should Never be Credited as an Inventor 

The company responded to an open question from the U.S. Patent Office.

By Mark Sullivan  in FastCompany

Google says that generative AI systems should not be listed as an inventor even if the an AI system made a significant contribution to the invention, Axios reports.

“As our comments say, we believe A.I. should not be labeled as an inventor under the U.S. Patent Law, and believe people should hold patents on innovations brought about with the help of AI,” Google senior patent counsel Laura Sheridan told Axios.

The company gave its opinion on the matter in a filing to the U.S. Patent Office. The USPTO had called for a opinions on a set of questions related to generative AI and patents. In particular, the office asked: “If an AI system contributes to an invention at the same level as a human who would be considered a joint inventor, is the invention patentable under current patent laws?”

Generative AI systems are already inventing novel combinations of drug compounds for treating disease. And as the systems improve, and are given access to more specialized knowledge bases, they could be the rightful inventor of something with no assistance from humans at all.

Should such inventions be credited to AIs? Or should be they be credited to the companies that created the AI? The Commerce Department and the USPTO need establish a position on the matter. If they change the USPTO’s current rules, it could have profound effects on the country’s innovation ecosystem, which relies on patents to make sure that inventions pay off in dollars.

Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, has indicated that she’d like to clarify the government’s position on inventor status for AIs this year.

A U.S. Court of Appeals recently ruled that patents are reserved for human inventors. The Supreme Court last week refused to hear the case, leaving the decision of the lower court in place. The courts will very likely be asked to revisit the issue.  ... ' 

Google AI Driven Shopping is now

And how different from past Google methods?

Will Google’s AI-Driven Search Captivate Shoppers?  from Retailwire

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Will Google’s AI-Driven Search Captivate Shoppers?

AI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE SEARCH GENERATIVE EXPERIENCE

May 15, 2023 by Tom Ryan

Google last week introduced a new set of features—called Search Generative Experience—that deliver AI-generated summaries to queries similar to ChatGPT as well as follow-up prompts to engage users in a conversation. The technology promises more accurate, relevant and expansive information when shopping via Google search.

“With generative AI in Search, we can help you understand the full picture when you’re shopping, making even the most considered and complex purchase decisions faster and much easier,” wrote Elizabeth Reid, Google’s VP & GM, search, in a blog entry. “When searching for a product, you’ll get a snapshot of noteworthy factors to consider and products that fit the bill. You’ll also get product descriptions that include relevant, up-to-date reviews, ratings, prices and product images.”

The technology giant’s new generative AI shopping technology is powered by Google’s Shopping Graph, which has over 35 billion product listings with 1.8 billion refreshed every hour.

Follow-ups to the original search query take on a conversational style without the need for repeating context or details already provided. “You’ll also find helpful jumping-off points to web content and a range of perspectives that you can dig into,” Ms. Reid wrote.

Search ads will continue to appear in dedicated slots throughout the page, promising to be “distinguishable from organic search results.”

The search feature will initially only be available in the U.S. through a waiting list system. The platform is described as an ongoing “experiment” with improvements expected over time.  .... '

Google Enters Palm 2

The internals are getting weirder.

https://youtu.be/u_dSUtp4eM8    

Enter PaLM 2 (New Bard): Full Breakdown - 92 Pages Read and Gemini Before GPT 5? Google I/O

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Google puts it foot on the accelerator, casting aside safety concerns to not only release a GPT 4 -competitive model, PaLM 2, but also announce that they are already training Gemini, a GPT 5 competitor [likely on TPU v5 chips]. This is truly a major day in AI history, and I try to cover it all. 

I'll show the benchmarks in which PaLM (which now powers Bard) beats GPT 4, and detail how they use SmartGPT-like techniques to boost performance. Crazily enough, PaLM 2 beats even Google Translate, due in large part to the text it was trained on. We'll talk coding in Bard, translation, MMLU, Big Bench, and much more.

I'll end on the Universal Translator deepfakes and the underwhelming results from Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman's trip to the White House and what Hinton says about it all. On a more positive note, I cover Med PaLM 2, which could genuinely save thousands of lives.   .. 

Google reveals AI updates as it Vies with Microsoft

 Advanced Tech rolls on.  In China,  Baidu's Ernie makes a AI  play. 

Google reveals AI updates as it vies with Microsoft    in the BBC

Google has announced it is rolling out generative artificial intelligence (AI) to its core search engine.

The move comes after Microsoft incorporated GPT-4 into its Bing search engine earlier this year.Search Generative Experience - which will be part of Google - will craft responses to open-ended queries, the company said.

However, the system will only be available to a limited number of users and is still in "experimental" phase.

"We are reimagining all of our core products, including search," said Sundar Pichai, the boss of Google's parent company Alphabet. Additionally, the company announced a new feature on Google's Android system will proactively warn users about unknown AirTags, tiny devices developed to track personal items like keys and wallets.

The technology giant said the "unknown tracker alerts" would go live this summer.

The announcement came after Apple and Google said last week they were working together to address the problem.

Last year two women sued Apple over AirTag stalking.

Women who have been tracked using the devices told the BBC last year that not enough was being done to prevent misuse.

Apple AirTags - 'A perfect tool for stalking'

Google made the announcement at its annual developer conference, where leaders of the company touted their latest advancements in artificial intelligence and new hardware offerings, including a $1,799 (£1,425) phone that opens and closes like a book.

The company said it was removing the waitlist for "Bard", its experimental, conversational, chat service, which will be rolled out in English in 180 countries and territories.

It also said the chatbot would soon be able to respond to prompts with images as well as text.

Google has been under pressure to burnish its artificial intelligence offerings, after the runaway success of rival chatbot ChatGPT, which is funded by Microsoft.

A previous attempt to show off its credentials in the field, in February, ended in embarrassment, after it emerged that - in an advert intended to illustrate its capabilities - Bard had answered a question incorrectly.

The incident wiped $100bn (£82bn) off parent company Alphabet's share value - an indication of how keenly investors are watching how the tech giants' AI ventures play out.

Microsoft is deploying ChatGPT technology into its search engine Bing, after investing heavily in the company that developed it, OpenAI. Chinese tech giant Baidu also has a chatbot, called Ernie.

Chirag Dekate, analyst at Gartner, said Google remained an industry leader and was well poised to benefit in the interest in AI.

"Google has the tools to dominate the AI battles, the perennial question is - will they?" he said.