At developer conference: Google announces AI offensive

Posted On: May 11, 2023

Google CEO Sundar Pichai

Google wants to improve its offerings across the board with artificial intelligence. In addition to the search engine, other apps like GMail and Maps should also get new features, CEO Sundar Pichai said at the Google I/O developer conference on Wednesday.

“We will use AI to massively improve our products,” he announced. Among other things, Pichai demonstrated how the software can formulate a letter to the user. He also showed how users of the Google Photos app can not only remove unwanted objects and people, but also change their own position in the image, for example.

In recent months, developer OpenAI has caused a stir with its ChatGPT chatbot, which can form sentences like a human. With a multibillion-dollar deal with OpenAI, Google’s arch-rival Microsoft is pushing the Internet group to make more of its own AI developments available to the public. Until now, Google has been reluctant to do so, citing responsible use of the technology. At the same time, Pichai stressed that Google has been working with artificial intelligence for years.

Google CEO Philipp Justus

“The future of AI is our shared responsibility”

It started with a board game, followed by a scientific breakthrough that biologists had been working on for more than 50 years: Artificial intelligence can do great things for people, companies and society, if developed and used in Responsible and collaborative. Philipp Justus, Google Vice President for Germany and Central Europe, on the role AI will play in all of our lives today and tomorrow. …

Google introduced a new language model called Palm 2 for new AI capabilities to compete against OpenAI’s GPT-4. Palm 2 can speak more than 100 languages and brings with it writing, programming and analysis skills.

In the future, Google’s chat bot Bard will also be based on Palm 2. Google’s text bot, which has only been tested in the US and UK until now, will be available in English, Korean and Japanese in 180 countries, including Germany. Language support for German and 39 other languages will follow “soon”.