Everything was announced at the I/O
Google on Wednesday announced a new AI model, ‘Gemini 1.5 Flash’, in its Android operating system. It claims it can convert text, image and video into high-definition video. Google also said it will be launching a new chatbot called ‘Gemini Nano’, which can help users create videos with YouTube and improve them with Veo.
It’s going to be a lot of about artificial intelligence in I/O 2024
Google is testing a feature that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to call a business and wait on hold for you until there’s actually a human being available to talk to, a report said. The feature uses AI to call a business and wait on hold for you until there is actually a human being available to talk to.
We will be all about the topic of artificial intelligence again
Google is working on an AI-powered product named ‘OpenAI’, a report said. The product could reportedly be powered by Bing’s search engine. Earlier, a report by Bloomberg had also suggested OpenAI was working on an AI-based product capable of searching the internet. The report added that Google could tease new products like Pixel 9 and Pixel Tablet 2.
The major AlphaFold upgrade has a boost for drug discovery
Google-owned AI firm DeepMind announced it has developed AlphaFold 3, an artificial intelligence tool for drug discovery. “This is exactly what you need for drug discovery: You needs to see how a small molecule is going to bind to a drug, how strongly, and also what else it might bind to,” DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said.
The company is Suppressing our voices after dozens are fired
Google fired 28 employees after they participated in protests against Project Nimbus, a $1.2-billion contract with Israel’s government that also includes Amazon. The No Tech for Apartheid group, the coalition of technology workers and Muslim- and Jewish-led activist groups, organised the protests. The group says that without clarity on the project, it’s still unclear how the technology is being used in Israel.
The police are holding people for protesting a cloud contract with Israel
Google fired three of its employees in New York who occupied the company office for more than ten hours during a protest against Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip. The workers were charged with violating US legal protections for workers. They were fired for “physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities,” a Google spokesperson said.
Nine employees were arrested during a sit-in protest
Google employees have been protesting against the Israeli government’s censorship of Google Cloud services amid Israel’s conflict with Hamas. A Google Cloud spokesperson said the protests were “part of a longstanding campaign by a group of organisations and people who largely don’t work at Google”. Google Cloud’s Israeli employee Eddie disrupted Google Israel’s managing director at Mind The Tech.
The workers are protesting against the cloud contract with Israel
Technology workers protesting against Google’s cloud service Project Nimbus were arrested in New York and Sunnyvale, California on Wednesday. They had occupied a common area on the 10th floor of Google’sChelsea location to protest against the contract. The workers have claimed that Israel could use such capabilities to harm Palestinians.
The myth of Incognito Mode is completely out of place
Google has agreed to destroy or alter billions of records of web browsing data collected when users were in ‘Incognito’ mode, as part of $5 billion class-action settlement over privacy concerns. Incognito mode allows users to browse through a website without being tracked. “We’re happy to delete old technical data that was never associated with an individual,” Google said.
But not to win, the new artificial intelligence will play video games with you
Google has created an artificial intelligence (AI) system, called SimA, that will be able to “learn to do random things in games and videos”. SimA was developed by a team led by Google’s Senior VP of AI Harley Schramm. SIMA is being used to control Goat Simulator-3, a video game where players can take their domesticated ungulates on wild adventures.