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  • Gemini AI enhances user experience with interactive canvas and AI-generated audio overviews

    Gemini AI enhances user experience with interactive canvas and AI-generated audio overviews

    Google’s Gemini AI suite added Canvas and Audio Overview on Wednesday. These tools facilitate user participation and engagement with digital content, bolstering Gemini’s productivity and creativity.

    Dave Citron, Senior Director of Product Management for Gemini Apps, highlighted the importance of these updates, stating, “Gemini is evolving into an even more powerful partner for creativity and productivity. With Canvas and Audio Overview, we’re providing users with intuitive tools to refine their work, learn more effectively, and bring their ideas to life.”

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    Canvas: Enhancing real-time collaboration

    Canvas is an interactive workspace within Gemini that streamlines creating, editing, and refining documents and code in real time. Users can generate high-quality drafts, adjust tone and style, and collaborate seamlessly.

    The ability to export directly to Google Docs facilitates further collaborative efforts. Canvas supports HTML and React previews, enabling developers to create initial prototypes for web apps, Python scripts, and more.

    Canvas is available to Gemini and Gemini Advanced subscribers in all supported languages. It allows users to work more efficiently with AI-driven feedback and intelligent editing suggestions. It enhances the coding experience by providing a live preview adjacent to the code, enabling iterative adjustments while observing changes.

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    Audio overview: Transforming content into engaging audio

    Audio Overview is a feature that converts documents, slides, and research reports into AI-generated, podcast-style discussions. It creates lively audio conversations between AI hosts, providing dynamic summaries, highlighting connections between topics, and offering fresh perspectives on uploaded files.

    Users can transform class notes, research papers, or lengthy email threads into engaging audio content to stay informed while multitasking.

    Currently available in English for Gemini and Gemini Advanced subscribers, Audio Overview is accessible via a suggestion chip above the prompt bar. The feature aims to enhance accessibility by catering to multitasking professionals and students, allowing them to absorb complex information effortlessly via the web or the Gemini mobile app. Support for additional languages is expected soon.

  • Google Gemini AI reintroduces AI-generated images of people after backlash

    Google Gemini AI reintroduces AI-generated images of people after backlash

    Google has announced that its AI platform, Google Gemini AI, will again allow users to create AI-generated images of people. This feature, previously suspended in February 2024 due to concerns over inappropriate and historically inaccurate depictions, is set to roll out in the coming days. The reintroduction comes with new safeguards to prevent misuse and ensure responsible use of the technology.

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    New Safeguards for Google Gemini AI

    The decision to reinstate the ability to generate images of people follows Google’s commitment to enhancing the Gemini platform. The updated feature will utilise Imagen 3, the latest iteration of Google’s AI text-to-image generator. This model incorporates advanced technical enhancements, including refined evaluation criteria and rigorous testing procedures, known as “red-teaming,” to identify and mitigate potential issues.

    However, Google has implemented strict limitations on the types of images that can be generated. The platform will not allow the creation of photorealistic representations of identifiable individuals, images of minors, or any content that is excessively graphic, violent, or sexual. Dave Citron, Google’s Senior Director of Product Management for Gemini, emphasised the company’s dedication to monitoring user feedback and continuously improving the system.

    Background on the Suspension

    The initial suspension of Gemini’s image generation capabilities stemmed from significant user feedback highlighting the AI’s tendency to produce historically inaccurate representations. Notably, the AI had generated images of racially diverse soldiers in contexts where such diversity was historically inaccurate, leading to public criticism.

    While diversity in AI-generated images is generally beneficial, Google acknowledged that it had “missed the mark” in these instances. The company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, described some outputs as “entirely unacceptable.”

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    Future developments of Google Gemini AI

    In the process, Google is also launching Gems, a product that enables users to create personalised Artificial Intelligence entities for specific uses, such as a fitness companion or a writing buddy. This will improve user interaction and increase personalisation within the Gemini platform.

    The use of AI images of people shall mostly be for the holders of the Gemini Advanced, Business, and Enterprise accounts, with the option of limited English prompts at first. Due to high demand, Google is set to expand to other languages and users soon.

    Including AI-generated images of people in Google Gemini AI is a significant positive for the platform as it shows the company’s dedication to the responsible deployment of AI. With improved security and a concentration on user feedback, Google wants to improve and clarify the users’ experience when using services interconnected with AI-created content.