Google is still drip-feeding AI into Search, Maps, and Translate
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Google announced a bunch of AI-enabled Search, Maps, and Translate updates as part of its “Google presents: Live from Paris” event on Wednesday.
While it showed off hints of the ChatGPT-rivaling “Bard” AI chatbot-style search powered by its LaMDA technology, most of the features focused on features we’ve already seen, like “visual search” implementations that expand Google Lens, a more immersive version of Google Maps, and a Google Translate that is better at understanding context. Of course, you can kinda sorta mess around with Microsoft’s new ChatGPT-powered Bing already and access the already-available ChatGPT itself, which has been enough to raise a “code red” about AI features within Mountain View.
Some of the features are things…
