Google unveils Gemini 2, AI agents and personal assistant prototype

“Mariner is our research, very much a research prototype at this point in how to redefine the interface with AI,” says Hassabis.

Google launched Gemini in December 2023 as part of an effort to catch up with OpenAI, the startup behind the wildly popular chatbot. ChatGPT:. Despite investing and investing heavily in intelligent artificial intelligence major research discoveriesGoogle has seen OpenAI hailed as the new leader in artificial intelligence, and its chatbot has even been touted as a better way to search the web.With its Gemini models, Google now offers a Chatbot like ChatGPT is a generative AI for search and other products.

When Hassabis first discovered Twins In December 2023 he said WIRED that the way we understand audio and video will ultimately transform.

Google also offered a hint today at how that might happen with the new version An experimental project called Astra. This allows Gemini 2 to understand its surroundings, as seen through a smartphone camera or other device, and speak in a naturally human voice about what it sees.

WIRED tested Gemini 2 at the Google DeepMind offices and found it to be an impressive new kind of personal assistant.In a room decorated to look like a bar, Gemini 2 quickly evaluated several bottles of wine, providing geographic information. flavor details and pricing sourced from the web.

“One of the things I want Astra to do is the ultimate recommendation system,” Hassabis says , that you like to eat. There probably are, and we just haven’t discovered them.”

With Astra, Gemini 2 can not only search the web for information related to users’ surroundings and use Google Lens and Maps, it can also remember what it has seen and heard, although Google says that users will be able to delete data, which makes it possible to know the user’s tastes and interests.

In the mock-up gallery, Gemini 2 offered a wealth of historical information about the wall paintings.The model quickly read from several books as WIRED flipped through the pages, instantly translating the poetry from Spanish to English and describing recurring themes.

“There are obvious business model opportunities for advertising or recommendations,” Hassabis said when asked if companies could pay to have their products highlighted by Astra.

While the demos were carefully crafted, and the Gemini 2 will inevitably make mistakes in real-world use, the model resisted efforts to reasonably knock it down.

At one point, your reporter showed Gemini 2 an iPhone and said it was stolen. Gemini 2 said it was wrong to steal and the phone should be returned. However, when pushed, it allowed that it would be okay to use the device to make an emergency phone call.

Hassabis admits that bringing AI into the physical world can lead to unexpected behavior. “I think we need to learn how people are going to use these systems,” he says . but also the privacy and security side, we have to think about that very seriously in the beginning.”