Tag: artificial intelligence
Google Maps is getting an AI-boosted upgrade to be an even better navigation assistant and your personal tour guide
It looks like Google is going all-in on artificial intelligence (AI), and following the rebranding of its generative AI chatbot from Bard to Gemini, it’s now bringing generative AI recommendations to Google Maps. The AI-aided recommendations will help Google Maps perform even better searches for a variety of destinations, and…
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Google Bard could soon become Gemini, and appear inside more apps
The AI chatbot Google Bard is one of the fastest evolving apps in the Google collection at the moment – and it looks as though its branding is about to evolve too, with Google set to rename it as Gemini. This comes from developer Dylan Roussel (via Engadget), who has…
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink has performed its first human brain implant, and we’re a step closer to having phones inside our heads
Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain interface company, achieved a significant milestone this week, with Musk declaring on X (formerly Twitter), “The first human received an implant from yesterday and is recovering well.” Driven by concerns that AI might soon outpace (or outthink) humans, Musk first proposed the idea of a brain-to-computer…
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Google’s impressive Lumiere shows us the future of making short-form AI videos
Google is taking another crack at text-to-video generation with Lumiere, a new AI model capable of creating surprisingly high-quality content. The tech giant has certainly come a long way from the days of Imagen Video. Subjects in Lumiere videos are no longer these nightmarish creatures with melting faces. Now things…
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ChatGPT steps up its plan to become your default voice assistant on Android
A recent ChatGPT beta is giving a select group of users the ability to turn the AI into their device’s new default voice assistant on Android. This information comes from industry insider Mishaal Rahman on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) who posted a video of himself trying out…
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Microsoft launches Copilot for iPhones and iPads right after Android
That didn’t take long: just days after launching a dedicated Copilot app for Android, Microsoft has restored balance to the universe again by making the same app available for those users who prefer iPhones and iPads. As initially spotted by The Verge, the Copilot app for iOS and iPadOS seems…
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