AI Mode could turn your next Google search into a conversation

[Pelican Press 0]

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

AI Mode could turn your next

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

search into a conversation

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

searches will be a lot more conversational on Android devices thanks to artificial intelligence, judging from unreleased code

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

by 9to5

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

. The Search app may soon add an AI Mode combining interactive discussions and other features that make

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

’s foundational service act more than a little like the Gemini AI assistant.

AI Mode, referred to as AIM in the uncovered code, melds the human-like interactions of Gemini Live with

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

Search and tosses in the visual understanding and analysis that you get from

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

Lens. When in AIM, you’ll be able to respond to what

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

Search comes up with. Instead of just a list of results, you’ll be able to ask follow-up questions, interrupt responses, and otherwise treat Search like it’s Gemini Live.

AI Mode should be available as a tab in the

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

app’s bottom navigation bar if and when it rolls out. In addition to using your voice to search, you can also use photos taken with your phone or other uploaded ones. You can then explain what you want to search for concerning the image. One additional amusing bit of the code is that its placeholder is a winking emoticon.

Gemini or Search?

The idea of AI Mode in

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

Search makes sense at first glance but raises a few questions in context. It appears to be so similar to Gemini that it is more of a variation of Gemini Live. That would fit with how

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

seems keen to get people to use Gemini for everything. AI Mode isn’t identical to Gemini Live, as AI Mode would offer a multimodal experience that combines text, voice, and images, but it’s close enough to make it hard to know when you would use one over the other.

AI Mode might just be a road to a more comprehensive service. Augmenting

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

Search with Lens’s ability to ask questions about photos and videos and boosting the current voice interaction, which transcribes spoken requests, could pave the way for

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

Search to become a facet of Gemini or vice versa. It could also change how we think about the most popular search engine in the world.

Instead of turning to

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

to say “show me results,” we could simply ask it to “give me a direct, thoughtful answer.”

You might also like

Sign up to be the first to know about unmissable ****** Friday deals on top tech, plus get all your favorite TechRadar content.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

#Mode #turn #

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

#search #conversation

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up