#GoogleIO is just hours away (keynote is at 10am PT). Here's how you can watch it live plus what you can expect:
https://mashable.com/article/google-io-livestream-how-to-watch
Get ready for a day filled with #AI news:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/08/google-io-to-feature-ai-updates-showing-off-palm-2-llm.html
And new #gadgets including the #PixelFold:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/4/23711353/google-pixel-fold-announced
#Pixel7a phone:
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-7a-3241861/
We're T-minus 1 hour before the #GoogleIO keynote.
#GoogleIO livestream update: Countdown has been replaced with pre-show from musician Dan Deacon...using generative AI to entertain the crowd.
Musician Dan Deacon using Google's MusiLM, Phenaki and Bard AI tools to entertain the #GoogleIO crowd pre-keynote. The images behind him were generated using AI.
Dan Deacon: "I used Bard to ask how I could guide the visual representation for this event..."
"Don't pay attention to the fact that the bird has lips...the bird has lips..."
"Let's just imagine how much better the world can be if birds had lips and that the bird invited us to live with it..."
We're really tripping on something early in the morning...
#googleio opening act: Musician Dan Deacon talking about how he worked with Google to use #AI in his music-making.
And a bird with lips mascot enters the #googleio stage...
Seriously, you'd think this is something you'd see at the end of "Last Week Tonight"
What is going on this early in the morning?
Fun lil topical joke from musician Dan Deacon: "In the streets, it's Google Maps, but in the sheets, it's Google Sheets"
Derp.
The #googleio countdown to the keynote is back on.
LESS THAN 10 MINUTES!
Five minutes people!
1 minute!
And here we go! #googleio
Opening hype video about how Google is helping people discover information, searching for answers, editing photos, watching videos, etc.
And yes, "new breakthroughs in AI"
We're at an inflection point. We can make AI more helpful for everybody. We've been applying AI to make our products dramatically better...
First up is talking about generative #AI with Gmail —Pichai is recapping smart replies, smart compose.
Introducing "help me write": AI can read your email and produce replies. EG if your flight is canceled, "Help me write" can create a message that could dramatically help get you a refund.
Will start rolling out with Workspace updates.
Next up: Google Maps
Pichai recaps immersive view being released. Now expanding tech to help you get where you want to go. 20 billion km of directions provided every day. Imagine if you can see your trip in advance.
Immersive View for routes gives you a birds-eye view of your trip, check the day's air quality, see traffic and weather later on.
Launching by end of the year in 15 cities including London, Tokyo, and SF.
Google Photos update next: We already have image removal and later this year using contextual understanding and generative AI, you'll have "Magic Editor"
Holy crap...Google is making Photos app a pseudo competitor to Lightroom and Photoshop.
Magic editor for Google Photos is rolling out later this year.
Announcing PaLM 2: Builds on fundamental research and infrastructure. Highly capable of wide range of tasks. Over 25 products and features powered by PaLM 2 today.
So lightweight that it can work on mobile devices and even offline. Spans over 100 languages. Help developers collaborating around the world.
Pichai talks about the combo of teams into Google DeepMinds, saying that the teams contributed to many breakthroughs in #AI that led to the "inflection point where we are today."
Goes on to talk about Gemini that's still in development.
Mentions AI responsibility — having tools to identify synthetic content where you encounter it, such as watermarking. Pichai says moving forward all content will include watermarking and other info. Also, talks about metadata included in AI images. #googleio
Google Bard: Supports wide range of programming capabilities, gotten smarter at prompts and math problems. Now fully running on PaLM 2.
Now demo time to learn what's coming...
Sissie Hsiao (VP & GM, Assistant) on stage.
Bard can now collaborate on code generation, debugging and explaining code snippets. Learned more than 20 programming languages.
starting next week: code citations will be improved.
Google is launching two export features: Letting you export responses into Docs and Gmail.
In a way, yo u could do something similar with Bing/Edge/ChatGPT.
Announcing Bard+tools, meaning you can have extensions...so what you can do with ChatGPT. Starting with Google apps you use and love today.
Plus, Google is improving the UI so it's pulling from Photos and Knowledge Graph to present something visually better.
Google Lens is also coming to Bard — ask Bard to write funny captions of your doggos.
Example of Bard's extensions including integration with Adobe Firefly (Adobe's generative #AI tool)
Google is really going hard after OpenAI and ChatGPT right now with extension support.
Will it be enough?
GOOGLE REMOVES WAITLIST FOR BARD.
Bard now supports Japanese and Korean languages.
Google Workspace updates up next...talking about how you can collaborate with AI now.
"Help Me Write" is a big part of the updates.
Ken Yeung
