Google has launched Artificial Intelligence (AI) search and real-time chatbots, increasing competition in the fast-growing technology sector.
Through its AI-powered assistance tool Gemini, Google on Tuesday announced ‘Gemini Live’ which is a mobile chat experience that allows users to freely chat with Gemini.
“Gemini Live is starting to launch today in English for Gemini Advanced customers on Android phones, and in the coming weeks will expand to iOS and more languages,” the multinational said in an update.
In Kenya, Gemini Advanced subscription is billed at a monthly rate of Sh3,700.
In the new offering, users will be able to live on the platform and chat with AI assistance tools, including asking questions as happens in written text tools such as ChatGPT.
“It’s like having a sidekick in your pocket that you can talk to about new ideas or practice for important conversations,” notes Google.
In a breakaway and other advancements from existing devices, Gemini Live has been made to be hands-free, which means that users will be able to continue talking to the Gemini application in the background or when the phone is locked so that the conversation can continue. as it happens in regular telephones.
To make talking with Gemini more natural, Google has introduced 10 new voices that users can choose from so they can choose the tone and style that best suits them.
The new launch adds to the complexity of unveils that global netizens have been treated to for the past few weeks by multinational tech companies as the AI buzz continues to heat up and make inroads around the world.
Just last week, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance unveiled a new text-to-video tool as it tries to tap into the new-age innovation space currently dominated by Microsoft and Google.
Named Jimeng AI, the tool allows users to create short videos based on prompts written as descriptions of ideas in natural language.
During the same week, WordPress owner Automattic launched a tool called ‘Write Brief with AI’ designed to help bloggers write more clearly and concisely by marking posts that use more important words to describe something.
The tool can also tell users if their language is lacking in confidence or if they are using words that are too complicated that might alienate some readers.
Earlier in June, instant messaging platform Meta-owned WhatsApp launched its first AI-driven ad targeting program for business accounts that aims to provide companies with the possibility to optimize the delivery of ads to the most engaged users.
The Meta platform is also introducing a new AI chatbot to answer business questions directly in chat as it tries to convince businesses to outsource communications to automated tools.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has also launched a prototype AI-powered digital health promoter equipped to provide better empathetic responses to health-related queries.
The tool named Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health (SARAH) can engage users 24 hours a day in eight languages on various health topics on all smart devices.
It has the ability to support people to develop a better understanding of risk factors for some of the world’s leading causes of death, including cancer, heart disease, lung disease and diabetes.
International digital commerce group Alibaba has made plans to set up an AI-enabled conversational sourcing engine ready to facilitate the global business-to-business (B2B) sourcing process for small to medium-sized businesses by enabling faster and easier searches. potential business partners and products.
The annual job trend index report published jointly by Microsoft and LinkedIn in March this year showed that the global use of generative AI has almost doubled in the previous six months, with 75 percent of global knowledge workers using it.
“Already, AI is being woven into the workplace on an unexpected scale. 75 percent of knowledge workers use AI at work today, and 46 percent of users started using it less than six months ago,” read the report.
