For years, now, we’ve been setting timers, playing music, and even controlling our homes with our digital assistants. This has been a means by which it has been easier to get things done, saving minutes of value each and every day.
Now, with generative AI, we will provide a new kind of assistance for all kinds of complex tasks an assistant can do, at eight times faster speeds. With Gemini, we’re redefining what it means to be a useful personal assistant fully. Gemini is developing with advancements to provide AI-based mobile assistance, which is going to bring a new level of help—all while the system becomes more natural, more conversational, and more intuitive.
Launching today: Gemini Live
Gemini Live is a mobile led conversational experience that offers you to engage in fluid on-the-go conversations with Gemini. Ever wanted to brainstorm potential jobs that you can do with your skillset or degree? Go Live with Gemini and ask about it. In fact, you can even decide to interrupt yourself mid-response to go deeper at a certain point in your response or interrupt a certain conversation off and get back to it at a later time. It’s like having a sidekick in your pocket, one to talk to about new ideas or to rehearse those very important conversations you need to have.
Gemini Live is also hands-free. You can keep talking with the Gemini app in the background or when your phone is locked, so you can carry on your conversation like walking around, much as you might on a regular phone call. Gemini Live launches today in English as a rollout to our Gemini Advanced subscribers using Android phones and, in the following weeks, will become available on iOS and more languages.
And now, with its new update, it gets more human because there are 10 new voices added for you to pick from according to the tone and style that suits you.
Gemini works within all the apps and tools used in the present day to help with small and big tasks. Unlike other virtual assistants, it operates silently behind the scenes, eliminating any need to jump around between apps and services.
We have a new set of extensions coming in the next couple of weeks – Keep, Tasks, Utilities, to even more features on YouTube Music. Imagine you are hosting a dinner party: You can have Gemini surface that lasagna recipe Jenny sent into your Gmail, and ask it to add the ingredients to your shopping list in Keep. And since your guests are your college friends, ask Gemini to “make a playlist of songs that remind me of the late ’90s.” Without needing too many details, Gemini gets the gist of what you want and delivers.
And when a Calendar extension is coming soon, you’ll be able to take a picture of a concert flier and ask Gemini if you’re free that day — then set a reminder to buy tickets.
Leveling up Gemini on Android
Gemini is deeply integrated into the Android experience, bringing more context-aware features that only Android can offer. Gemini is there for you when you need help with anything on your Android phone. Only long press the power button or say, “Hey Google,” and Gemini will be there, ready to help. If you receive the suggestion “Ask about this screen,” you can touch it to get help with what’s on your screen or ask questions while using YouTube about what you’re watching. So, let’s say you’re about to go abroad and just saw this travel vlog. Tap “Ask About This Video” and ask Gemini to make a list of all the restaurants in the video and then add them to Google Maps.
Deeper Integrations: Thanks to built-in deep integrations for Android, Gemini can do way more than simply read your screen. It helps you drag and drop images into apps that you already use, like Gmail and Google Messages.
Rethinking Helping Assistant
The Gemini app is less than a year old, and already it can save you time by updating your shopping lists, drafting emails, or even rehearsing with you for an upcoming job interview.
On one hand, as strong as AI is and as much as it unlocks serious new capability, it also creates new problems. Ironically, the large language models that can understand natural language so well and handle complex tasks are likely to spend just a little more time on simple tasks. While it is flexible to finish tasks, from time to time, generative AI has been known to exhibit behavior wrongly expected of it, sometimes even in providing information.
This includes new models such as Gemini 1.5 Flash, which is faster with better quality responses. In the months ahead, we will build on this work to increase speed and quality while launching deeper integrations with Google Home, Phone and Messages. More information about how you can use Gemini for all of your favorite Assistant actions, including details on upcoming improvements:.
Today, we are at an inflection point where we feel useful things are possible in an AI assistant but outweigh the challenges brought along with them, and we’re excited for you to try it out in Gemini as the default assistant on the Google Pixel 9. We are still in early days in discovering all the ways an AI assistant can be helpful, and, similar to Pixel phones, Gemini just keeps getting better.
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