The Pace Of Change In The AI Space Is Really Becoming Dizzying!

 

This appeared last week:

Google’s Gemini AI can now write your emails and create spreadsheets

It turns out Google’s new AI isn’t only good for generating images of black Nazis. Soon you’ll be able to generate spreadsheets and emails with it, too.

John Davidson Columnist

Apr 10, 2024 – 2.52pm

Google’s Gemini AI may have gotten off to the worst imaginable start in its race against OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but it’s getting back on track now.

Four months after Google infamously launched Gemini with a fake demo showing the new AI model to have near-human intelligence, and only a month after Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai was forced to email Google staff telling them Gemini’s bizarre image generation was “unacceptable”, the company has announced a slew of business-oriented Gemini applications that, it must be hoping, will offend no-one.

At its Google Cloud Next 24 convention in Las Vegas, the world’s largest advertising company said it was bringing Gemini to Google Workspace, to help workers write emails and documents, and design spreadsheet tables more easily.

Coders will also get to benefit from Gemini, through a new feature called Gemini Code Assist that the company says will help speed up programming by 30 per cent or more. The assistance will help with autocompletion of lines of code, find bugs, and help coders with “navigating security challenges”, Google Cloud vice president Brad Calder said in a statement.

But not everyone is a coder, and there’s plenty in Google’s announcements for non-coders, too.

Google Sheets, the company’s cloud-based answer to Excel, will get tables where Gemini “formats and organises data in a sleek, updated design”, Aparna Pappu, the VP and GM of Google Workspace, said in a blog post.

“Select a template from our new set of building blocks – featuring everything from project management to event planning and inventory management – so you never have to build a spreadsheet from scratch again,” she said, adding the feature will appear “in the coming weeks”.

Meanwhile, Gmail users will get Gemini in Gmail, which “helps you transform notes into a more complete email draft in a single click”, she said.

“These new experiences will be available to Gemini Enterprise and Gemini Business customers, as well as Google One AI Premium subscribers,” she said.

Here is the link:

https://www.afr.com/technology/google-s-gemini-ai-can-now-write-your-emails-and-create-spreadsheets-20240410-p5fipu

Just read this slowly to get a real sense of the pace of change we are experiencing!

I have little to add.

David.