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🙌 All Hail Google
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🙌 All Hail Google
Ok - we would first like to start by apologizing to Google for ever questioning its dominance or its will to compete against Microsoft and OpenAI.
Google introduced an absolute gauntlet of AI features to the world during their Google I/O 2023 conference, and good God, was it impressive.
Without further adieu, let's dive into what happened yesterday.
👋 Introducing PaLM 2
Google started by introducing its next-generation model, PaLM 2, which is set to power over 25 new products and features.
The model is said to be “state of the art,” as it was trained to be:
Multilingual - the model was trained on text that features more than 100 languages, improving its ability to “excel at multilingual tasks.”
Excellent at coding - the model was trained on 20 programming languages. This includes popular ones like Python and JS and lesser-known ones like Prolog and Fortran.
Here are some examples of the features PaLM currently powers:
Sec-PaLM: a model trained for cybersecurity analysis, helping understand and defend against threats in “unprecedented” time.
Med-PaLM 2: a model trained to summarize sights from medical texts. Soon, they will also be capable of analyzing mammograms and X-rays. Dr.Gupta might be out of a job.
PaLM is a highly capable model and comes in “various speeds and sizes,” but Google is already thinking ahead. They are currently working on Gemini, a multimodal and highly efficient AI with capabilities never seen before in prior models.
Is this all talk to scare $MSFT, or are they up to something big here?
🧨 Bard unleashed
Bard just got supercharged:
No more waitlist
Runs on PaLM 2
Internationally available across 180+ countries and territories
Supports languages like Japanese and Korean, with 40 more coming soon.
On top of this, Bard will allow you to:
Include images in queries
Write better code due to PaLM’s increased reasoning + automation of the code citations process, making it easier to link to the source.
You can also use the export features to directly move the code to Google Colab or Replit or to move Bard-generated responses directly into Google Docs or Gmail. No more time wasted copy-pasting.
Integrate with Google Suite of apps (more below)
Support for different plugins, including Spotify, Adobe Firefly, and Khan Academy, with many more coming soon.
These are huge upgrades for Bard, especially considering how much Bing AI has improved in recent months. The competition is well and truly back on.
📝 AI for the Google Suite
Google is finally giving us what we want - generative AI to help us do mundane things like write emails and fix spreadsheets.
Through Duet AI in Workspaces, you can write, organize and accelerate workflows in a way that wasn’t possible before. Bringing this capability to its apps suite is a stroke of genius because it allows users to interact with it and improve the AI through constant feedback.
Here are some examples of how it works in Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
Docs + email: “Help me write” is now available to write a compelling first draft for anything you need. Google demoed it by asking the system to write a job description, which in all honesty, might’ve been better than 80% of the ones I see on LinkedIn…
Sheets: “Help me organize” allows you to describe what you are trying to accomplish, with Sheets coming up with an appropriate way to organize it.
Slides: Marketing decks just got way nicer - through DuetAI, you can create images that fit your needs, even if that image never existed before.
🔍️ Search with a side of Generative AI
Let’s keep it 💯 - Google made its name by being the most dominant search engine in the game.
Then along came Bing to try and take the reigns. But as Thanos once said, “[they] should have gone for the head.”
Google introduced its revamped search engine, using Generative AI to produce a response for your search query before jumping to the results.
SEO might be changed forever.
⏭️ Other:
Google introduced Vertex AI, a platform that serves businesses that want to understand and exploit the power of generative AI.
They also spoke about their AI Principles, which help them create “responsible AI.” What do you think of them?
Overall: Google went all out with these updates, but the crazy thing is… this feels like the beginning.
All eyes are now on Microsoft. Here we go.
🤑 AI Fundraising News
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🗞️ Byte size: AI article summaries
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman set to visit Congress [Semafor] - Sam Altman will visit the U.S. Capitol next week to brief members of Congress on AI. Congress has been criticized for its slow response to regulating AI and is playing catchup as the technology evolves. It is unclear how or when Congress will be able to grapple with crafting new legislation on AI. (Read more)
Clearview fined again in France for failing to comply with privacy orders [TechCrunch] - Clearview AI has been fined €5.2m in France over a lack of cooperation with data protection regulators, on top of the €20m fine it was issued in 2021 for breaching regional privacy laws. Clearview has been found to have breached several requirements by France’s CNIL and several other regional data protection authorities. (Read more)
🐦️ Tweet of the day
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Pretty sure Google is focusing on AI at this year’s I/O. #GoogleIO
— The Verge (@verge)
5:44 PM • May 10, 2023
And that does it for today's issue.
As always, thanks for reading. Have a great day, and see you next time! ✌️
— Haroon: (definitely) Not A Robot and @haroonchoudery on Twitter
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