Google I/O 2024: Android to Get Support for These AI-Powered Features

Google I/O kicked off on Tuesday, the primary day of the corporate’s annual developer convention. Through the keynote occasion, the corporate’s executives additionally took the wraps off noteworthy new options coming to Android smartphones over the approaching months — strangle sufficient, the corporate did not unveil Android 15 options in the course of the keynote occasion. These bulletins have come forward of the corporate’s subsequent main smartphone working replace that’s anticipated to reach within the second half of 2024. As anticipated, Google is ready to introduce new options powered by synthetic intelligence (AI), constructing on the trail it took with Android 14 final yr.

Dave Burke, VP of Engineering at Google highlighted new AI-powered options coming to Android smartphones within the coming months, on the Google I/O keynote occasion. Probably the most spectacular options showcased is an improve to Circle to Search — the corporate’s visible lookup characteristic at the moment unique to pick out Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel telephones — that can enable college students to ask for assist with their homework. Google says that its LearnLM expertise will enable customers to circle a immediate to resolve “issues involving symbolic formulation, diagrams, graphs and extra” — the characteristic is predicted to reach later this yr.

Gemini, the corporate’s AI mannequin that may additionally run on Android smartphones, can be getting upgrades. The corporate says that Gemini on Android will quickly be capable to present details about YouTube movies, whereas AI generated photographs may be shortly added to Gmail and Messages. In the meantime, customers will be capable to utilise Gemini Advanced to get solutions from PDF paperwork — with out poring by means of a number of pages — with a brand new “Ask this PDF” choice, based on the corporate.

Google Pixel smartphones will even achieve assist for Gemini Nano with Multimodality, the corporate’s newest mannequin for on-device AI processing. Along with the prevailing potential to course of textual content enter, Pixel telephones will be capable to course of contextual info like visuals, audio, and even spoken info. 

AI can be making its solution to Google’s most elementary smartphone app — the dialler. In a demo proven off on the Google I/O 2024 keynote occasion, the corporate demonstrated the flexibility to detect a possible rip-off name asking a person to switch financial institution info or reveal banking info over the telephone. The characteristic was proven to work in real-time and works on-device to guard person privateness. There is not any phrase from Google on when these options will make their solution to customers, or which (presumably Pixel) smartphones will likely be supported.

Google TalkBack, the accessibility characteristic on Android smartphones will additional enhanced with Gemini Nano’s multimodal options, based on the corporate. The service will allow visually impaired customers to get extra detailed details about photographs, by filling in details about unlabelled photographs. Google says that these new options will work on-device, which signifies that customers will be capable to benefit from the improved performance even after they do not have web entry. There is not any concrete launch date for the improved Google TalkBack service powered by Gemini Nano with Multimodality, however the firm says it’s arriving “later this yr”.