Google Grants Access to AI-Powered Meeting Assistant and Other Tools

On Tuesday, Google announced that it has made its meeting assistant Duet AI accessible, allowing users to participate in meetings and create notes without having to join calls.

Until now, access to the artificial intelligence partner was limited to subscribers.

Duet AI is Google’s artificial intelligence integration with Google Cloud and Workspace that allows users to not only take notes, but also join meetings on their behalf, save notes, action items and video clips, a senior manager at Google Workspace said during a media roundtable. from the Google Cloud Next 2023 event on Tuesday.

“Duet acts as a meeting assistant—capture notes, to-do items, and video clips in real-time with the new Take Notes for Me feature. It can even help you jump in and join late,” said Google Workspace VP Products Kristina Behr.

As for the Ask Me to Attend feature, he said: “You can be in two places at once by asking Duet to attend for me. Just reply to the meeting you want Duet to attend and add an optional message to the meeting attendees…it will automatically send you notes after the call.”

Duet AI can also detect and provide support in 300 languages, in addition to being able to create speaker notes using Google Slides, Behr added.

Launched in May, Duet AI used generative AI capabilities to generate and summarize text, generate images from prompts, and organize information.

The company also said it will add artificial intelligence to its chat functionality to get updates, insights and “proactive suggestions” in workplace apps and create summaries of recent conversations, Behr said.

Addressing corporate privacy concerns, Behr said, “As we embed AI into Workspace, protecting confidentiality, privacy and customer data remains our top priority.”

Consulting firms such as Accenture, Capgemini, Deloitte and Wipro are collectively training around 1.5 million experts for customers to implement Google Cloud Gen AI, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said in a company release.

Google Cloud reached US$32 billion in annual revenue, recording profitability in the April-June period, Kurian added.

Google also announced improvements to its cloud-based machine learning platform Vertex AI, which will allow companies to create search and chat applications using its data in minutes.

The American microblogging company will hold its first in-person Google Cloud Next event since 2019 from 29 to 31. August.