Google teases new AI-powered Google Lens trick in feisty ChatGPT counter-punch

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Lens trick in feisty ChatGPT counter-punch

It’s another big week in artificial intelligence in a year that’s been full of them, and

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has teased a new AI feature coming to mobile devices just hours ahead of its

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I/O 2024 event – where we’re expecting some major announcements.

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shows someone asking their phone about what’s being shown through the camera. In this case, it’s people setting up the

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I/O stage, which the phone correctly identifies.

User and phone then go on to have a real-time chat about

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I/O 2024, complete with a transcription of the conversation on screen. We don’t get any more information than that, but it’s clearly teasing some of the upcoming reveals.

As far as we can tell, it looks like a mix of existing

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Lens and

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Gemini technologies, but with everything running instantly. Lens and Gemini can already analyze images, but studying real-time video feeds would be something new.

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It’s all very reminiscent of the multimodal features – mixing audio, text, and images – that OpenAI showed off with its own ChatGPT **** yesterday. ChatGPT now has a new AI model called GPT-4 Omni (GPT-4o), which makes all of this natural interaction even easier.

We’ve also seen the same kind of technology demoed on the Rabbit R1 AI device. The idea is that these AIs become less like boxes that you type text into, and more like synthetic people who can see, recognize, and talk.

Based on this teaser, it looks likely that this is the way the

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Gemini AI model and **** is going. While we can’t identify the smartphone in the video, it may be that these new features come to Pixel phones (like the new

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Pixel 8a) first.

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All will be revealed later today, May 14: everything gets underway at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST, which is May 15 at 3am AEST. We’ve put together a guide to how to watch

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I/O 2024 online, and we’ll be reporting live from the event too.

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