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Topic: Google I/O 2023

The company says that traditional Google search should still be used for finding and seeking information, such as locating something to purchase News 

Google I/O 2023: How does the new AI search differ from the Bard Chatbot?

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Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday introduced an updated core search product that embeds more artificial intelligence into its answers, as the company seeks to dispel suspicions that it is losing ground to Microsoft Corp’s OpenAI-powered Bing search. Google already has a Bard chatbot that competes with ChatGPT, OpenAI’s chatbot that has created a lot of excitement among users with its human responses. WHEN DO I GOOGLE AND WHEN BARD? According to the company, traditional Google search should still be used to search and find information, such as locating what to…

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Google I/O 2023 keynote had a lot of AI-centric announcements but it went much beyond that for Google. Google executives including CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned the word around 150 times during the 2-hours keynote. News 

ChatGPT effect? Google Execs mentioned “AI” nearly 150 times during the I/O 2023 Keynote

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The Google I/O 2023 keynote lasted 2 hours on Wednesday, and the company certainly had a lot to share, not only with its new Pixel devices, but also with other developer-related stuff. But one cannot ignore the fact that Sundar Pichai and Co. started the whole event by focusing on one thing and that is artificial intelligence (AI). But quite a few of you are interested in the impact of the word artificial intelligence in last night’s keynote, and it turns out that Google used the word AI about 150…

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The new update will bring Gmail and Calendar to Wear OS later this year, allowing users to respond to emails, browse their inbox, complete Google Tasks, and more. News 

Google I/O 2023: WearOS 4 announced with new features, improved battery life and more – check availability

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US tech giant Google recently announced new features for Wear OS at its annual developer conference, Google I/O 2023. WearOS 4 is based on Android 13 and brings several improvements, including improvements to battery life and a new text-to-speech engine that is faster and more accurate than the current version. One of the notable updates is the addition of a restore and backup feature that was missing from both Wear OS 3 and Wear OS 3.5. This new feature allows users to exchange their old smartwatch for a new one…

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Google, at the I/O 2023, emphasized artificial intelligence more than anything, and also launched PaLM 2—its next generation language model with improved multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities—which, also now powers Google Bard. News 

Google I/O 2023: What is PaLM 2, the AI model powered by Google Bardia

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At I/O 2023, Google emphasized AI more than anything else and also launched PaLM 2 – its next-generation language model with improved multilingualism, inference and coding capabilities – which now also runs on Google Bard. Google claims that PaLM 2 is “strongly trained for multilingual text” and can work in more than 100 languages, a capability that enables it to understand, create and translate nuanced text. PaLM 2 also has strong inference capabilities with a large data set. In addition, PaLM 2 was pre-trained on publicly available source code datasets,…

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Magic Editor can also create new content when repositioning an image to change the way cropping and resizing works, and it is functionality that is likely to expand beyond Pixel phones in the future. News 

Google I/O 2023: Google Photos Adds New AI Feature ‘Magic Editor’ – Why It Matters

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At Google I/O 2023, US tech giant Google introduced a new AI-based editing feature called “Magic Editor” for Google Photos, which allows users to make significant changes to their images. This feature includes enhancing the sky, moving objects or people in the photo, and removing people from the background. It will be available to pre-selected Pixel users later this year. According to Google, Magic Editor can perform complex edits automatically by adjusting specific parts of an image to remove unwanted objects, change composition by repositioning the subject, and updating elements…

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The Pixel 7a, Google's latest addition to its line of smartphones, was announced with upgraded camera features. News 

Google I/O 2023 highlights: Pixel Fold, Android 14, new AI updates and more – all the details here

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Google I/O, the highly-anticipated annual developer conference, took place on Wednesday and revealed a slew of new products and updates from the US tech giant. Highlights included the announcement of the Pixel 7a, Pixel Fold, and Pixel Tablet, as well as exciting new tools like Google Bard, the new Gmail, Android 14, and additional features for Google Maps, Photos, and Search. The Pixel 7a, Google’s latest addition to its smartphone lineup, was announced with upgraded camera features. The Pixel Fold, the company’s first foldable phone, also made its debut, featuring…

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