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Google Brings AI to Messaging in Android

Feb 26, 2024, 10:12 AM by Rich Brome @richbrome

Google today announced two major new AI features for messaging in Android. The first is in Android Auto, where AI will now automatically summarize long texts or busy group chats while driving. It will also "suggest relevant replies and actions you can take with a single tap – helping you navigate to an address, make a call, or share your ETA when someone asks for it." This feature is rolling out starting today. Separately, the Messages app for Android now lets you Chat with Gemini, where you can have a conversation with Google's new AI chatbot as if it were a person in your contacts. You can even send it photos as part of your conversation. The feature includes thumbs-up and thumbs-down feedback buttons to help Google improve Gemini, and a "Report legal issue" button. This feature is only available to users enrolled in the messages beta channel and only to adults 18 and older. For now it only supports English, and French in Canada.

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kwalmn

Feb 26, 2024, 11:45 PM

Gemini AI is not an advantage

With each passing day, more and more significant issues with Gemini are discovered. Many of its responses are just appalling. I have no desire to communicate with chat bot that sounds like a university student going for a liberal arts degree.

Recent inquiries to Gemini regarding specific political or social media personalities are now exposing Google to actual defamation claims. Like many LLMs, it still suffers from the issue of "hallucinations". This "tool" will get pulled once lawyers get involved.

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