During the development of what has been the last summit of Google I/O, it has finally been revealed what the new language model that the company will launch will be, how Gmail, GDocs, its popular search engine and many of their products.
During the celebration of the 15th conference yesterday, the news that the company brings for the future was raised and thus consolidate its position of technological supremacy. But if something was eagerly awaited by everyone, it was everything that made reference to Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very complicated field and where competition is crucial.
Google has long been the technology market leader, but with the merger between Microsoft and OpenAI the landscape turned around and Alphabet’s subsidiary company saw its rivals shake up the technology industry and lose its advantaged position. Now the challenge is to be the standard bearer of Artificial Intelligence.
The race for Artificial Intelligence
With this scenario, the commotion around the Google I/O summit was more than evident and the CEO of Alphabet and Google, Sundar Pichai, was so forceful, stating that “Artificial Intelligence is having a hectic year.” The one who is the head of the American multinational, he categorically affirmed that the company will focus its forces on Artificial Intelligence, this being the core from which all Google products and services will depart.
The company’s objective is to make Artificial Intelligence a transformative tool that brings important changes and contributes to the good development of society.
Thus, Sundar Pichai declared in this regard that “making Artificial Intelligence useful to all people is the deepest way to advance our mission: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible. With a determined and responsible approach, we are reimagining all of our core products, including the search engine.”
With the presentation of Google I/O, the American company has flaunted the bases that support Artificial Intelligence, being able to give better access to knowledge and expand user learning. In the same way, from Google they see this emerging technology as a mechanism to boost people’s creativity and productivityand as a tool with which developers and companies can build their own products and services.
Google’s new Artificial Intelligence model will be PaLM 2
The company presented what will be its new language model, PaLM 2, standing out for its power and its multilingualismand it will be available in more than 100 languages. With this, Google’s AI will be much more comprehensive and human, since it will have a greater capacity to translate texts with set expressions, riddles, poems or jokes, since it will be prepared to work with nuances, ironies or double meanings.
Another highlight is its logical reasoning ability and common sense. The PaLM 2 database includes scientific articles and web content with expressions, formulas and mathematical language. In addition, PaLM 2 has been released with a programming code that makes it work with languages like Python and JavaScript, or more specialized like Prolog, Fortran and Verilog.
More news on Google
The incorporation of AI will affect all Google products, highlighting some relevant news such as the ones we tell you below.
Duet AI for Google Workspace
Work has focused on incorporating generative AI into all Workspace applications. The arrival of Duet AI will help users write, organize, visualize, speed up workflows, and have more productive meetings. Gmail will thus be one of the services that will benefit the most from this thanks to its new function “Help me write”, with which it will write emails for us.
Google Search with Artificial Intelligence
When using the search engine, the AI will answer the questions that we ask ourselves through images and content taken from the results that will not appear with the naked eye. It will have Google Shopping helping to show us the products that may interest us the most, with relevant information and recommended questions.
Development of a responsible AI
Google has shown its ambition as well as its responsibility to achieve its purposes. In this sense, they are aware of climate change, and it is that their AI will be able to make critical flood forecasts, identify forest fires in real time or improve health care.
In research it stands out Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold program, with which to predict the three-dimensional shape of 200 million proteins. AI is helping to make information accessible to everyone.
safer products
Google firmly believes in the responsibility of protecting its users, and in this sense it has presented the innovations that have been possible thanks to Artificial Intelligence.
In picture, the company has launched the “About this image” tool which will give relevant information such as the date, where it first appeared or where it has been seen. Other innovations have been a public API available to improve the safety of children on the Internet.
Other aspects in line with safety is the use of the login with passkey to forget passwords for the future, which combines the advanced security of two-pass verification and the use of a cryptographic key; either the Safe Browsing service to identify dangerous sites and files, thus being able to alert the user.
