Google Assistant
… Gemini replaces Google Assistant, and should be available from the Play Store for any watch running Wear OS 4 or later that has Assistant. But if your watch doesn’t have Assistant already, you’re not getting the Gemini upgrade. …
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As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise
… What good is an AI assistant that can help you plan a fun day if you can’t actually afford any free time in your life? …
Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for ‘any lawful’ use of AI
…The deal also requires Google to assist with making adjustments to its AI safety settings and filters at the government’s request. “We are proud to be part of a broad consortium…
AI music is flooding streaming services — but who wants it?
…There was a sense of experimentalism to 2018’s I AM AI by Taryn Southern and 2019’s Proto by Holly Herndon, albums that were created with significant assistance from AI. Others…
Ride-sharing
… Hawkins Feb 23 Uber Eats adds AI assistant to help with grocery shopping Andrew J. …
AI warfare is already here
…And many tech workers already fear for their jobs in an era when AI is set to replace entry-level roles at their own firms. Meanwhile, through its court fight with the…
Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
… The assistants are in the cars. I’m pivoting at the end to the CarPlay talk to boost our numbers at the end. Oh, that’s perfect. They’re coming. GM just has Gemini. GM. Rivian has an assistant. …
Welcome to the personal software revolution
… More recently, though, Notion has made the process even simpler: Just tell the built-in AI assistant what you want to accomplish, and it’ll build the page and system for you. “And because Notion provides so many underlying building blocks,” Ivan Zhao, Notion’s CEO, told me last year, “the AI only n… …
Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
… This long-running vision of Google Assistant we’ve all had and worked through myriad forms of it and failed to fully do it well, we are closer than ever before to delivering on that promise. …
Microsoft AI chief on why it’s ‘dangerous’ to call AI ‘alive’
… My measure is like when I turn to my assistant and ask it to provide me with a daily briefing summarizing all the conversations that have happened on Teams and on email, the updates that have happened to documents, and I get basically a synthesized summary with a set of actions that I should take n… …